A drawing by a school child from the Municipality of Mértola depicting desertification and its causes.

Among other things, the work undertaken by DESERTLINKS with the stakeholders highlighted a need for basic information about desertification, written in non-technical language, addressing the causes and consequences of desertification.

A booklet entitled "What is Desertification?" has been written to meet these needs.

The complete booklet can be downloaded in the following languages:

• English
• Portuguese
• Spanish (not available yet)
• Italian
• Greek

as can a poster based on the booklet.

• English
• Portuguese (not available yet)
• Spanish (not available yet)
• Italian (not available yet)
• Greek (not available yet)

Note: to download the files you will need to use the same username and password that you used to enter DIS4ME.