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| Name | The Desert Margin Program (DMP) |
| Description | The Desert Margin Program (DMP) The objective of the DMP is to arrest land degradation in Africa's desert margins through demonstration and capacity building activities. The GEF increment to this project from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) will enable the programme to address issues of global environmental importance, in addition to the issues of national economic and environmental importance, and in particular the loss of biological diversity, reduced sequestration of carbon, and increased soil erosion and sedimentation. Key sites harbouring globally significant ecosystems and threatened biodiversity have been selected in each of the nine countries to serve as field laboratories for demonstrations activities related to monitoring and evaluation of biodiversity status, testing of most promising natural resources options, developing sustainable alternative livelihoods and policy guidelines and replicating successful models. The project will make a significant contribution in reducing land degradation in the marginal areas and help conserve biodiversity. Guidelines and recommendations domains and supportive national policies that address biodiversity concerns will be set in place in implementing countries. Executing Agencies for DMP are ICRISAT and the National Agricultura Research Systems of Burkina Faso, Botswana, Kenya, Mali, Namibia, Niger, Senegal, South Africa and Zimbabwe. |
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