Poverty was thereby aggravated. The country also suffered from hydric erosion.

Epidemics of the “hydric” type were not registered either last or this year.

The main land degradation processes could be summarised as erosion, salination, physical degradation, chemical degradation, hydric degradation and biological degradation.

One country Party points out that a number of environmental conventions could use the same indicators, e.g. climatic, pedological, hydric, agricultural, forestry, biological, demographic etc.

The work of the European Commission (JRC) and of the United States Department of Agriculture (Natural Resources Conservation Service) on hydric soil erosion can also serve as the basis for discussions on the identification and selection of the right indicators to feed the indicators of the 10-year plan.