Efforts to reverse deforestation and land degradation are moving in the wrong direction, exposing the hollowness of United Nations pledges. October 14, 2024 at 12:00 AM EDT By Lara Williams ...

With land degradation entering the global conversation around sustainability, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) COP16 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, aims to advance the ...

Declaring land degradation is a growing threat to food security to regional countries including Pakistan, he said that every year it make around six million hectares land unproductive and cause ...

With agriculture using roughly 70% of global freshwater, land and soil degradation are directly undermining agri-food systems with human-induced degradation contributing to “pushing land, ...

Save Soil's map of different levels of land degradation around the globe in 2019. Save Soil It also helps improve water filtration and provides habitats for insects that may be beneficial to the soil.

What's happening? As The Guardian explained, the study determined that land degradation is increasing by around 1 million ...

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The Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) for Tamale, Abu Takoro, has raised alarm over worsening land degradation and declining soil fertility in the metropolis, warning that the situation is ...

While countries have promised to restore one billion hectares of land by 2030, current trends suggest 1.5 billion hectares would need to be restored to meet the 2030 land degradation neutrality goals.

Land degradation is directly and indirectly impacting seven planetary boundaries; six of these are already transgressed and progressing deeper into the “high risk zone” potentially leading to ...

Exclusive-UN Calls for $2.6 Trillion Investment to Reverse Land Degradation By Simon Jessop and Pesha Magid RIYADH (Reuters) - Restoring the world's degraded land and holding back its deserts will ...