Social Media Ideas for Land Degradation

Land models sprout as degradation threatens billions of livelihoods

Promising efforts to restore degraded land are now in the spotlight at a time when 40 per cent of the world’s land currently faces degradation and drought, threatening the liveliho...

Africa: How Degradation and Drought Are Threatening the Land That Feeds Us

[RFI] Desertification is not the spread of deserts. It is the slow degradation of fertile land - a process that now affects 40 percent of the Earth's land surface and leaves around...

India reports 97 85 mn hectares of land under degradation

India has reported a total of 97 85 million hectares of land under degradation across States and Union Territories with Rajasthan Maharashtra and Gujarat accounting for the largest...

Nearly 82 pct of Mongolia's total territory affected by desertification, land degradation

ULAN BATOR, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- At least 81.9 percent of Mongolia's total territory has been affected by desertification and land degradation to some extent, according to a new nat...

Protecting our ‘most vital infrastructure’: Pushing back on desertification

As heatwaves are turning deadlier, fires and disasters are razing cities, and rising seas are erasing territories. One environmental crisis remains dangerously overlooked: the degr...

Protecting our ‘most vital infrastructure’: Pushing back on desertification

As heatwaves are turning deadlier, fires and disasters are razing cities, and rising seas are erasing territories. One environmental crisis remains dangerously overlooked: the degr...

China shows degraded land can recover, senior UN official says

ULAN BATOR, Aug. 18 (Xinhua) -- For nearly half a century, China has carried out one of the world's largest and longest-running ecological restoration programs across its arid and...

World’s soils deteriorating: UN report

China shows degraded land can recover. The world is not paying enough, UN senior official says

by Xinhua writer Zeng YanBEIJING, July 25 (Xinhua) -- For nearly half a century, China has carried out one of the world's largest and longest-running ecological restoration program...

COP17: UN talks kick off in Mongolia in bid to address $278bn land degradation and drought funding gap

Negotiators from almost 200 countries expected to attend fortnight-long COP17 desertification summit aimed at addressing lack of investment in tackling land degradation and drought...

Interview: China shows degraded land can recover. The world is not paying enough, UN senior official says

by Xinhua writer Zeng Yan BEIJING, July 25 (Xinhua) -- For nearly half a century, China has carried out one of the world's largest and longest-running ecological restoration progra...

COP17: How UN desertification talks delivered 'mixed results' for combatting drought and land degradation

Mongolia Summit delivers billions of dollars in new financing, fresh private sector partnerships, and a range of new government commitments - but critics warn progress fell far sho...

COP17: Mayors call for bolder action to tackle desertification and degradation

Mayors' Forum adopts Ulaanbaatar Declaration on sustainable land management and drought resilience

India restored 21.76 mn ha Land during 2011–2020, generating 1.22 bn person-days of Employment: Shri Bhupender Yadav at...

 India restored 21.76 mn ha Land during 2011–2020, generating 1.22 bn person-days of Employment: Shri Bhupender Yadav at UNCCD COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, MongoliaLand Restoration is Ind...

IFLA Calls to Put Landscape at the Heart of Land Restoration at UNCCD COP17

The International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA) has issued a position statement for UNCCD COP17 in Ulaanbaatar, the 17th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention...

How Corruption And Sand Mafia Are Weakening Natural Climate Defences

The effects of climate change are worsening globally. We're all experiencing how nations are grappling with the effects of climate change due to this year's El Niño. Climate change...

Mongolia hosts UN desertification summit as drought crisis deepens

Mongolia is hosting the UN Convention to Combat Desertification’s COP17 in Ulaanbaatar from 17 to 28 August, bringing together representatives from 196 countries and the European U...

Cop17 aims to restore land and hope in fight against desertification

The 17th session of the Conference of the Parties (Cop17)of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification(UNCCD) runs in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, from 17 to 28 August, unde...