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The expansion of farmland is the main cause of biodiversity loss on land. And climate climate could exacerbate those losses, according to a new study. Over the next 40 years, under a high-emissions scenario, warming temperatures are expected to make more than 1 million square miles of wilderness — representing 7 percent of the world’s total remaining wilderness outside of Antarctica …

Climate risk assessments that take account of threats like heatwaves, droughts, floods and wildfires are increasingly being used to inform and improve national adaptation policies according to the latest European Environment Agency (EEA) assessment of national adaptation actions published today. The EEA briefing ‘Is Europe on track towards climate resilience? Status of reported national…

Climate change means desertification is a growing problem, with 250 million people directly impacted by the degradation of formerly fertile land. The issue affects a third of the Earth’s land surface, according to the United Nations, parching parts of Africa, South America, southern Europe, China and a third of US soil. Reclaiming arid land and turning it back into agricultural…

Original language Spanish América Latina y el Caribe es la región del mundo con más tierras degradadas al año, una pérdida que ocurre a un “ritmo acelerado" debido a la actividad humana y a la crisis climática, alertó a EFE una directiva de la Convención de Naciones Unidas de la Lucha Contra la Desertificación (CNULD). Un análisis de los datos recopilados entre 2015 y 2019…

Harvesting Hope Small Farmers Take on Food Insecurity in West and Central Africa. Any smallholder farmer should be inspired to dream big and secure a better life for their family and their community, like Tatiana, a farmer in the conflict-affected region of Bambari, Central African Republic (CAR), or in other hotspots for food insecurity in Western and Central Africa. In CAR like in…

Nearly one in two Central Africans suffer from food insecurity and 300,000 children under five are estimated to suffer from severe acute malnutrition. The IDA financed Agriculture Recovery and Agribusiness Development Support Project helps to strengthen the capacity of micro, small and medium agribusiness enterprises, bringing more jobs and food to people. Some 329,000 smallholder…