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India and a number of countries around the world are slowly losing productive land and soil to desertification. More than 30% of India’s land has degraded and become unsuitable for agriculture. Desertification, which is particularly prominent in Africa and Asia, has serious implications for food security, migration and people’s health and livelihoods. India itself has more than…

Deserts are advancing around the world. More countries than ever attended a United Nations conference on how to combat the loss of fertile land, which is threatening food supplies in many parts of the world. One farm in India shows why fields are drying up.

The IPCC's report on land use and climate change adds another perspective, or piece of the puzzle, to understanding what humans are doing to the planet and how we might be able to limit our damage to the Earth. Barron Josef Orr is a lead scientist for the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, one of the groups that requested the IPCC's report on climate change and land.

A third of the earth’s landmass is covered by deserts. But the exploitation and deforestation of our land is destroying vast stretches of fertile soil, leading to further desertification. Deserts emerge. There was a time when hippos and elephants lived in the Sahara. Today it's a barren landscape where few creatures can survive. A small lake fed by groundwater that fell to earth as…

tagesschau.de is an ARD member organization based at NDR (Northern German Broadcasting) in Hamburg. Dr. Anneke Trux, GIZ, on the threat of soil erosion and desertification About UNCCD: The UNCCD COP 14 ended on 13 September 2019, after ten days of meetings, 11 high-level, 30 committee and over 170 stakeholder meetings, 44 exhibitions and 126 side events. The Conference…

tagesschau.de is an ARD member organization based at NDR (Northern German Broadcasting) in Hamburg. About UNCCD: The UNCCD COP 14 ended on 13 September 2019, after ten days of meetings, 11 high-level, 30 committee and over 170 stakeholder meetings, 44 exhibitions and 126 side events. The Conference adopted the Delhi Declaration in which parties expressed commitment for a range…