Desertification
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Climate Change
‘No life without land’, says campaigning athlete at UN desertification meeting
There can be “no life without healthy land as we cannot survive,” according to an Olympic athlete who has been…
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SDGs
Private sector urged to act as world faces $23 trillion loss from land degradation
The private sector has been urged to make the sustainable management of land a key part of corporate and financial…
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SDGs
Meet the ‘Land Heroes’ who are fighting desertification
From planting a billion trees in Zimbabwe, in southern Africa, to exporting products from the moringa tree in Mali and…
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SDGs
The ‘slow onset, silent killer’: Droughts explained
Droughts across the world are intensifying and have become a “slow onset, silent killer” to which no country is immune,…
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SDGs
Three billion people globally impacted by land degradation
Three billion people around the world are suffering the impact of poor and degraded land which will “increase levels of…
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Climate Change
Live updates: UN tackles desertification, drought and land restoration
People around the world are facing devastating consequences as the land that supports livelihoods, helps to regulate climate and protect…
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SDGs
What’s desertification? Experts hopeful devastating trend can be reversed
An area the size of Egypt, around 100 million hectares, of healthy and productive land is being degraded each year…
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