Events

ZEF at UNCCD conference, April 9-12, 2013

ZEF participated in the 2nd Scientific Conference of the UNCCD (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification) on the "Economic assessment of desertification, sustainable land management and resilience of arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas", held in Bonn, April 9-12, 2013. See Website.

Plenary I: Panel Discussion

ZEF-director Joachim von Braun participated as a panelist in the plenary I on "Economic and social impacts of desertification, land degradation and drought", which takes place on Tuesday, 4 - 6 p.m. You can watch the video on ZEF's youtube channel:

ZEF/IFPRI session

On Wednesday, 10 - 11.20 a.m. ZEF co-organized with the International Food Policy and Research Institute (IFPRI) a session on "Toward an analytical framework to assess the value of action and inaction against land degradation: new insights, and policy challenges". See program.

At the ZEF/IFPRI session, the following topics were presented by the respective researchers:

- The economics of land degradation and the costs of action versus inaction by Nicolas Gerber, ZEF (see presentation here).

- Predicting future land degradation and its economic effects by Alex De Pinto, IFPRI (see presentation here).

- Exploiting provision of land economic productivity without degrading its natural capital by Ephraim Nkonya, IFPRI (see presenation here).

- Adapting to climate change and addressing land degradation through sustainable land management practices in Central Asia by Alisher Mirzabaev, ZEF (see presentation here).

The session report can be downloaded here.

You can see pictures of the session on ZEF's facebook site.

ZEF has been conducting research on drought and desertification and specifically the question of costs of inaction since years. For more information see our ELD (Economics of Land Degradation) Website.