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The United Nation Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has trained journalists across Africa to tell stories on land restoration in the Sahel. The two-day virtual training, which ran between August 12 and 13, was themed “Media as agents of change to accelerate land restoration in the Sahel”. The training was facilitated by a team of technical experts from the…

With less rain and water-saving infrastructure lacking, experts warn that the water crisis in Italy costs farmers €1 billion per year.Italy’s desertification crisis began in the southern regions of the country in the last few decades but is now starting to make its way north. According to the most recent estimates by the irrigation consortia association, Anbi, rising temperatures,…

Italia Olivicola warned that the hot and dry summer is already expected to have negative repercussions on the yield of the coming harvest. “There is an urgent need to increase water supply and reduce the effects of climate change,” the national producer association, Italia Olivicola, has warned. The organization said that low rainfall and the scorching heat in recent weeks in…

Is it possible for African farmers to feed Africa? Let’s look at the case study of Mali. In Mali, 85% of the country’s population is engaged in agriculture. We use 15% of the country’s budget on agriculture, which is even more than what is recommended by the African Union (10%). And every year, nearly half of the total remittances sent back from families outside Mali is also…

As other natural ecosystems, deserts have their own dynamics independent of human activities. Throughout the history, sand dunes have always been retreating or slowly expanding into adjacent areas when given the chance. But processes that happen during desertification are different. They do not follow natural patterns. They are more unpredictable and dangerous. They can happen much quicker……

Opinion By Jan Lundius STOCKHOLM / ROME, Aug 16 2021 (IPS) - I am in the Swedish countryside, lush and beautiful in its late summer attire, having a conversation with the son of a friend of mine. Oskar Olin runs a sheep farm, Stabbehyltan Lamm AB, where he practises holistic management. His three-hundred sheep graze within an area of 30 ha where Oskar every day moves his flock from one…