Can Africa's Great Green Wall still stop desertification? Billions have been poured into the Green Wall project to stop land degradation but little progress has been made. Nature and Environment ...

Desertification close desertificationThe spread of desert conditions in arid regions due to human activities, drought or climate change. is the process of land turning into desert as the quality ...

[Duncan Ndotono, Standard] In December 1994, the UN General Assembly declared June 17 the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. This year, the focus was on turning degraded land into ...

“to forge a global partnership to reverse and prevent desertification/land degradation and to mitigate the effects of drought in affected areas in order to support poverty reduction and ...

As the Sahara spreads, it threatens local farms and communities. This makes finding quick solutions to stop desertification very important. READ MORE: How Are the Galápagos Islands So Unique?

The motivation for this resolution was the Parties' concern about the deteriorating situation of desertification in all regions, which has far-reaching implications for the attainment of the ...

the United Nations General Assembly declared the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight Against Desertification. More about the purpose ...

and "over the longer term" to prevent "desert encroachment" on urban areas or fertile, arable land. China's desertification has been "primarily caused by human activities, such as overgrazing ...

Based on current climate and land conditions, the Murray-Darling basin is reducing in size. The basin is an indication on the effects of desertification occuring across the country. Human conditions ...