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Africa: Here's How to Reverse Land Degradation
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 27 April 2022
From South Africa to Kenya, Africa is fast losing healthy land - but solutions are emerging Read more »
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Africa: Landmark UN Report Issues Stark Call for Sustainable Land Management to Save Human Health
IPS, 27 April 2022
With 50% of humanity affected by land degradation, the world must move to a 'crisis footing' to conserve, restore and use land resources sustainably, a major UN report has said. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Increase Awareness On Land Degradation - FAO
The Herald, 25 June 2021
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Zimbabwe: More Efforts Needed in Fight Against Land Degradation
The Herald, 14 May 2021
"We often abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect," an… Read more »
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Africa: Key Insights Into Land Degradation From Seven Countries
The Conversation Africa, 4 October 2020
Land is essential to our lives - we grow food on it and rely on it for economic growth and development. In sub-Saharan Africa approximately 83% of people depend directly on land… Read more »
Here's How to Reverse Africa's Land Degradation
From South Africa, where unprecedented floods in April 2022 washed away farmland, to the excessive logging of Kenya's mountain forests, Africa is fast losing healthy land, putting millions of people at risk of hunger and losing their homes and incomes. Factors such as climate change, over-grazing, excessive cultivation, deforestation and urbanisation have left up to 40% of the planet's land degraded - affecting half of humanity, a report by the UN anti-desertification agency has said.
Worse is yet to come, including for countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the UN report warns. However, it is not too late to curb land degradation and restore dry land to fertile forests, the report added, citing a plethora of initiatives from Burkina Faso to Malawi that are working, write Nita Bhalla and Kim Harrisberg for Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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More than 130 world leaders who gathered at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, have pledged to co-operate and reverse land degradation and forest loss by 2030 by signing the Glasgow ... Read more »
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President Félix Tshisekedi has received praise from Greenpeace Africa for his decision on October 15, 2021 to suspend all dubious logging concessions by multinationals ... Read more »
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Speaking at the Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has urged rich and powerful nations to meet their financial commitments to ... Read more »
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