Nigeria: Assessing Nigeria's Desertification Control Efforts

8 January 2014

The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) recently raised an alarm that desertification poses serious threats to the socio-economic wellbeing of humans and biodiversity in general.

Reacting to the alarm, environment experts say that even though desertification can be controlled, it can never be stopped due to a combination of natural and anthropogenic factors, which are mostly man-made.

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