The Economics of Desertification, Land Degradation, and Drought

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors are grateful to Rattan Lal, professor of soil science at the School of Environment and
Natural Resources, and director of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, both at The
Ohio State University; to Franz Heidhues, professor emeritus of rural development policy and theory
at the University of Hohenheim; and to Paul Vlek, director at the Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung
(ZEF; Center for Development Research) in the department of ecology and natural resources
management at the University of Bonn for their timely and constructive review of an earlier draft of
this report. We are also grateful for the insightful comments from the staff members of the
Convention Project to Combat Desertification (CCD Project), Deutsche Gesellschaft für
Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ; German Agency for International Cooperation); staff members
of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification; Richard Thomas of the United Nations
University Institute for Water, Environment, and Health; and the participants at the partnership
meetings held in Bonn on December 15, 2010.
The financial support of this joint project of International Food Policy Research Institute
(IFPRI) and ZEF by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
through GIZ is gratefully acknowledged.
The authors take responsibility for all content, errors, and omissions in the report.
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