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The world has made tremendous progress in improving food security and nutrition. The proportion of people experiencing hunger fell from 14.7 percent to 10.6 percent between 2000 and 2015. And we’ve made progress on undernutrition, with the prevalence of child stunting dropped from 40 percent to 23 percent between 1990 and 2015. Food systems—the technical, economic, social and environmental…

The Sustainable Development Goals Policy Briefshighlight a hotspot of environmental concern. The evidence provided builds on the scientific data and information hosted on the online platform Environment Live, and is complemented by stories from around the world. Readers are invited to explore the numerous clickable links throughout the Brief.Biodiversity loss is caused by a range of different…

All four scenarios of the Millenium Ecosystem Assessment Desertification Synthesis Report (2005) show a likely increase in land degradation in drylands that is also known as desertification. Unsustainable land use leads to the degradation of goods and services provided by dryland ecosystems. These include the degradation of food and water resources, fuel and construction material as well as…

Within the project “Morphodynamic Processes and Desertification” of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, research has been carried out on the desertification of the Butana region in the Sahel of the Rep. of Sudan. The abolition of traditional rights of land use, with the resulting disorganized utilization of grazing lands and the self-generated sedentarization of many formerly nomadic groups,…

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