Desertif ikation bekaempfen - Armut mindern - Neue Handlungs-ansaetze bei der Umsetzung der CCD in Lateinamerika

摘要

A growing world-population, poverty, hunger, the degradation of natural resources, wars and armed conflicts: at the start of the new millennium the major challenges for the world-community continue and require immense efforts to face them. Single countries and national governments have often failed to solve upcoming problems; thus, new partnerships have to be established, linking governments and civil societies, public and private institutions as well as North and South in order to provide adequate and appropriate solutions. The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) follows such principles based on mutual cooperation and assistance. Since the CCD does not only focus on environmental but also on social and economic aspects of land degradation, such as poverty relief, the document is more considered a development convention and not only just another plan for environmental conservation. Providing comprehensive and suitable answers to ecological, social and economic questions, it truly has the potential to progress in the sustainable management of natural resources. Implementing the CCD therefore imposes on all participants the task to deepen existing cooperation, to search for new partnerships and to identify more innovative solutions to the challenges of the coming century.