Financing to combat desertification, land degradation and the effects of drought. UNCCD Thematic Factsheet series
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UNCCD Library
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loose-leafs
Desertification/land degradation is rarely accounted for as an economic issue, and drought barely accounted for as a disaster. Because desertification, land degradation and drought are slow and silent phenomena, they have a way of creeping up on us and thereby leading us to underestimate their socio-economic impacts.
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desertification
financing
drought
land degradation