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Desertification reflects and contributes towards societal problems such as poverty, underdevelopment and lack of food security. For mere survival purposes, many people feel they have no option but to engage in environmentally unsustainable activities that further contribute to desertification and perpetuate the cycle. Constraints in successfully dealing with…

Launching the Education First Initiative in September 2012, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, highlighting the connection between education and development, said, ‘Our internationally agreed development goals are a complex tapestry and education is the indispensable thread’. The initiative aims to ensure quality, relevant and transformative education for everyone. Its three priorities are to…

Launching the Education First Initiative in September 2012, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, highlighting the connection between education and development, said, ‘Our internationally agreed development goals are a complex tapestry and education is the indispensable thread’. The initiative aims to ensure quality, relevant and transformative education for everyone. Its three priorities are to…

Chapter 36 of Agenda 21, a key document of the 1992 Earth Summit, emphasised reorienting education towards sustainable development. While two of the Rio conventions, the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), developed communication, education and public awareness (CEPA) strategies, the United Nations Convention to Combat…

Desertification means land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas, generally known as "drylands". It is a process by which fertile land becomes degraded, typically as a result of drought, deforestation or inappropriate agriculture. Even though desertification is one of the significant challenges of these times, many people do not know what it is, or how it affects their lives.