Case studies

• Nepal: fighting poverty and land degradation with leasehold agreements
  (PDF version | Full document)

Evaluations

• Burkina Faso: special programme soil and water conservation and agro-forestry in the Central Plateau
• Evaluation du programme spécial pour les pays d’afrique subsaharienne touchés par la sécheresse et la désertification
• Ghana: upper East region land conservation and smallhoder rehabilitation project
• Jordan: agricultural resources management project – Interim evaluation
  (Executive summary | Full document)
• Tunisia: integrated agricultural and rural development project in the Governorate of Siliana

Lessons learned

• IFAD's exhibit: fighting land degradation and poverty
  Learning lessons from the rural poor

Publications

• Environment and natural resource management: IFAD's growing commitment
  PDF version English | French | Spanish
• Eradicating rural poverty is one of the first steps to fighting desertification
  PDF version English | Spanish
• Gender and desertification: making ends meet in drylands
• Gender and desertification: expanding roles for women to restore drylands
• IFAD in the Near East and North Africa region | Arabic
• Tackling land degradation and desertification
  GEF-IFAD partnership
  PDF version English | French | Spanish
• The rural poor - Survival or a better life?
  English - PDF | French - PDF | Spanish - PDF

Reports

• Report on the International Fund for Agricultural Development intervention programmes to combat desertification and rural poverty in the African region
• Sustainable livelihoods in drylands