Desertification close desertificationThe spread of desert conditions in arid regions due to human activities, drought or climate change. is the process of land turning into desert as the quality ...

Building on the successful celebration of the International Year of Deserts and the Fight Against Desertification (IYDD) in 2006, the United Nations General Assembly, by its resolution A/RES/62/ ...

The Sahara Desert has grown by nearly 10 percent since ... (9.4 million square kilometers), rivaling the size of the United States. This growth is a global problem, not just a local one.

the United Nations General Assembly declared the United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight Against Desertification. More about the purpose ...

In an attempt to fight desertification and restore degraded land across the implementing Nineteen Northern States and FCT of Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscape (ACReSAL), a World Bank ...

Desertification close desertificationThe spread of desert conditions in arid regions due to human activities, drought or climate change. is the process of land turning into desert as the quality ...

In an inaugural address to the second Asian Ministerial Conference on UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) here yesterday, Shaikh Zayed said it was beyond the capability of the affected ...

Yet more than one billion people, one-sixth of the Earth's population, actually live in desert regions. Deserts cover more than one-fifth of the Earth's land area, and they are found on every ...

The World Bank Group is attending the Conference of the Parties (COP16) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Learn how WBG integrates nature, climate, ...