The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) at its COP-16 meeting held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, recently released a report titled ‘The global threat of drying lands: regional and ...

Only when the last tree has died, the last river poisoned and the last fish has been caught, will we realize that we can’t eat money – Chief Seattle Chief Seattle, a Red Indian chief could not ...

During the Decade, all actors are called upon to raise awareness about desertification, land degradation and drought and their solutions. The Decade campaign is intended to reinforce the ...

Human conditions are a strong factor in the increase of desertification in Australia. What is Desertification? Desertification is a type of land degradation that occurs in dry-land ecosystems that ...

The implementation of the NAGGW initiative has never been as intense and deliberate as it is under the administration of its ...

Desertification is worsening the situation, ravaging more than 75 per cent of land in the northern, western and southern regions. This has reduced vegetation cover, accelerated land degradation ...

This is the area the UN says could be rehabilitated. Desertification is a form of land degradation by which fertile land loses much of its biological — and economic — productivity, and becomes ...

WWF is proud to have helped develop the RAA and will closely monitor its implementation process (next steps are in discussion). More than $12 billion was pledged to address desertification, land ...

The Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL) is an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land ...

combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss. Experts use nuclear techniques involving certain types of atoms called isotopes, such as nitrogen-15 and carbon-13 ...

In the end, Faqeeha described the summit in Riyadh as a “historic turning point”, raising global awareness of land degradation, desertification, and drought while delivering an ...