Flip through the record from 1981 to 2005, and you see the seasons sweep north and south across Africa as plant growth rises and falls in synch with each revolution of the Earth around the Sun. Most ...

Desertification is low on many countries’ radar — illustrated ... Meanwhile recent studies by the UK Met Office and USAID have linked the severe drought that hit East Africa in 2011 and falling rice ...

He is credited with developing the “holistic management” framework back in the 1960s and has been leading anti-desertification efforts in Africa for decades now using a rather unorthodox approach of ...

and the first UNCCD COP held in the Middle East and North Africa region, which knows first-hand the impacts of desertification, land degradation and drought. The post Riyadh: COP16 on combating ...

The UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is calling for urgent investments to empower small-scale farmers to tackle land degradation and desertification, and contribute to ...

Many countries around the world suffer from the problems caused by desertification but it is the Sahel region of Africa where the effects are greatest. The Sahel is a narrow belt of land which ...

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 ...

Additional savannas, grasslands, and woodlands are common indications of desertification in arid and semi-arid areas. Well-known examples of this occurrence include, Europe’s Adriatic Sea, the ...