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 ...

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 ...

Desertification, the process by which land is degraded in typically dry areas, results from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities, such as over-farming or deforestation.

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 ...

"It generates electricity, combats desertification, and provides me with an income from working here," he said. According to ...

According to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, up to 40 per cent of the planet’s land is degraded, directly affecting half of the world’s population. The number and duration of ...

The World Economic Forum defines "desertification" as "a type of land degradation in which an already relatively dry land area becomes increasingly arid, degrading productive soil and losing its ...

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

China has led the world in achieving "zero growth" in land degradation, with both desertification and sandification areas shrinking, according to data released by National Forestry and Grassland ...

As the chief scientist at the Chinese Academy of Forestry, Lu has championed multilateral cooperation to combat desertification, land degradation and drought. Lu Qi poses for a photo at an ...