Abandoned agricultural land, Jumilla, Spain (photo by F. López Bermúdez)

DIS4ME was developed to to enable users from a wide range of backgrounds, including scientists, UNCCD National Focal Points, policy makers and farmers, to:

• identify where desertification is a problem,
  
• assess how critical the problem is,
  
• better understand the processes of desertification.
  

Here are some examples of how the information and methodologies contained in DIS4ME have already been used to do these things.