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World Desertification Day: Restore land to help deal with global crises, leaders urge

World leaders are rallying support for a coordinated and coherent approach to reverse the loss of healthy land in light of the role it...

Michael Simire - June 18, 2021

Land Degradation

World Desertification Day: Delta partners FADE in fight against aridification

Delta State Government says it is partnering the Fight Against Desert Encroachment (FADE) Africa, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), in her fight against desertification in...

Michael Simire - June 17, 2021

Land Degradation

3.2bn people under threat of desertification, drought, says UN chief

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that a combination of land degradation from climate change and the expansion of agriculture, cities and infrastructures, are...

Michael Simire - June 17, 2021

Land Degradation

High-Level Dialogue on Desertification: Reversing land degradation crucial to fighting climate change

Climate change, overuse and conversion for agriculture, cities and infrastructure mean that one fifth of the planet’s land area is degraded. This damage, which...

Michael Simire - June 15, 2021

Land Degradation

Costa Rica rallies world leaders on land restoration

As host of the 2021 Desertification and Drought Day, Costa Rica will bring together world leaders and leading environmental figures on June 17 to...

Michael Simire - June 11, 2021

Land Degradation

Nigeria loses up to 400,000 hectares of forest yearly – NCF DG

The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) says the country loses up to 400,000 hectares of forest annually to environmental degradation. The NCF Director-General, Muhtari Aminu-Kano, disclosed...

Michael Simire - June 10, 2021

Land Degradation

NEMA urges South-East residents to plant trees to check erosion

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has urged residents of the South-East to plant trees to checkmate the menace of erosion within the zone. The...

Michael Simire - June 4, 2021

Land Degradation

Great Green Wall: Reps canvass establishment of Africa regional parliamentary assembly

The House of Representatives on Thursday, May 20, 2021 stressed the need for the establishment of an African regional parliamentary assembly of the Sahel...

Michael Simire - May 20, 2021

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