Desertification is accelerating under climate change, threatening biodiversity, food security, and human wellbeing across the Mediterranean Basin, southern Europe, and the Middle East. Water scarcity ...
While desertification is considered a permanent state, reversing desertification is possible with extraordinary measures. Restoring 1 billion hectares would reduce poverty and hunger and enhance ...
Human security is under threat from desertification, land degradation and drought. Combating this threat requires an integrated international response, which is why the theme for this year's World Day ...
Reversing desertification requires money, machinery and intelligent planning from industrialized nations as humanitarian aid. We cannot expect to reverse the trends just by passing laws that people ...
(CN) – The growing threat of desertification and its effects on European land, especially in the Mediterranean regions, are being poorly monitored and prepared for by the European Commission, ...
NAIROBI/DURBAN, April 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From South Africa, where unprecedented floods this month washed away farmland, to the excessive logging of Kenya's mountain forests, Africa is ...
Bonn, Germany, 21 February 2024 – This year’s Desertification and Drought Day, observed on 17 June, will focus on the future of land stewardship. Every second, an equivalent of four football fields of ...
NAIROBI/DURBAN, April 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From South Africa, where unprecedented floods this month washed away farmland, to the excessive logging of Kenya's mountain forests, Africa is ...