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The High Price of Desertification: 23 Hectares of Land a Minute
Farmer Margaret Gauti Mpofu adds manure to her vegetable crops in a field on the outskirts of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPSBy Busani BafanaBULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Jun 15 2017 (IPS)Urban...
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Africa Could Help Feed the World – If Its Fertile Land Doesn’t Vanish
The President of Burkina Faso Roch Kaboré spoke on behalf of his peers Ibrahim Boubacar Kéita of Mali and Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger at the celebration of the World Day to Combat Desertification, June...
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Africa: Drought and Jobless, Hopeless Youth, Fertile Grounds for Extremism
“The on-going drought in the Horn of Africa is widespread, triggering a regional humanitarian crisis with food insecurity skyrocketing, particularly among livestock-owning communities, and devastating...
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Battle of the Desert (and III): UNCCD ‘s Louise Baker on The Silk Road
Louise BakerBy Baher KamalBONN / ROME, Nov 23 2016 (IPS)Marking this year’s World Day to Combat Desertification last June, the United Nations announced the launch of a China-United Nations Convention...
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The Unbearable Cost of Drought in Africa
People living in the Melia IDP camp, Lake Chad, receiving WFP food. Most of the displaced come from the Lake Chad islands, that have been abandoned because of insecurity. Photo: WFP/Marco FrattiniBy...
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Falling Between the Sun-Scorched Gaps: Drought Highlights Ethiopia’s IDP Dilemma
Women and children at an IDP settlement 60km south of the town of Gode, reachable only along a dirt track through the desiccated landscape. Credit: James Jeffrey/IPSBy James JeffreyGODE, Ethiopia, May...
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Protecting Africa’s Drylands Key to the Continent’s Future
The impacts of fire and ecosystem fragmentation on a community can be devastating. Credit: Cheikh Mbow/ICRAF/FlickrBy Sam OtienoNAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 29 2017 (IPS)Africa’s population continues to grow,...
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Europe, New Border of Africa’s ‘Great Desert’ – The Sahara
By Baher KamalROME, Sep 5 2017 (IPS)With the highest temperatures on record and unprecedented heat waves hitting Europe this year, Africa’s ‘Great Desert’, the Sahara, is set continue its relentless...
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Alert: Nature, on the Verge of Bankruptcy
The on-going drought in the Horn of Africa is widespread, triggering a regional humanitarian crisis with food insecurity skyrocketing, particularly among livestock-owning communities, and devastating...
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The Urbanization of Malnutrition
While Kuala Lumpur boasts islands of artificial rainforest, one of the fastest growing urbanized agglomerations stretching 2,245 sq.km around it, with 7.4 million people, has lost all ancient...
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Impending Drought? There’s an App for That – Or Should Be
A cornfield in Zimbabwe shrivels under poor rainfall conditions that affected the crop nationwide. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPSBy Sam OtienoNAIROBI, Oct 30 2017 (IPS)Fostering and harnessing innovative...
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Combating Climate Change? Combat Land Degradation, Says UNCCD Chief
Women restore degraded land in southern India under a government-funded program. Credit: Stella Paul/IPSBy Stella PaulBONN, Germany, Nov 24 2017 (IPS)Land restoration is not a “glamorous subject even...
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Money Talks at One Planet Summit in Paris
Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, at the One Planet Summit in Paris. Credit: AMBy Paris CorrespondentPARIS, Dec 14 2017 (IPS)As...
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Locals Learn to Live in Harmony with Drought in Brazil’s Semi-arid Region
João Afonso stands amidst his watermelons and other forage plants on his farm in the municipality of Canudos, in the state of Bahia, in Brazil’s semiarid Northeast. Thanks to water and soil management...
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Women on the Front Lines of Halting Deforestation
Judith Ncube, the chairperson of the Vusanani Cooperative in Plumtree, Zimbabwe. Credit: Sally NyakanyangaBy Sally NyakanyangaPLUMTREE, Zimbabwe, Jan 29 2018 (IPS)In Zimbabwe, the bulk of rural...
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Latin America Makes Headway Against Land Degradation
A soybean plantation in Tocantins, a state in northern Brazil, a country that is poised to be the world's largest producer of soy, a monoculture for which millions of hectares have been deforested....
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Forest communities play a fundamental role in Mexico in combating land degradation, but they need more support to that end. The owners of forests can make a contribution in this Latin American country...
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Over to You, Children! Zambia’s ‘Plant a Million Trees’ Takes Root
Matero East primary school students collecting water. Credit: Munich Advisors GroupBy Friday PhiriLUSAKA, Apr 24 2018 (IPS)Trees are a vital component in the ecosystem—they not only give oxygen, store...
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Leading from the Front: Zambia Launches Plant a Million Trees Initiative
President Edgar Lungu just before planting a tree during the launch of Plant a Million Trees Initiative in Chinsali District. Credit: Munich Advisors GroupBy Friday PhiriCHINSALI, Zambia, May 3 2018...
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Great Green Wall Brings Hope, Greener Pastures to Africa’s Sahel
By 2030 the ambition is to restore 100 million hectares of currently degraded land and sequester 250 million tons of carbon. Credit: Greatgreenwall.orgBy Issa Sikiti da SilvaDAKAR, Senegal, Jun 11 2018...
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