Desertification threatens 24% of the world's land area spanning 126 countries and impacts 35% of the global population. Yet ...

Oszkár Nagyapáti climbed to the bottom of a sandy pit on his land on the Great Hungarian Plain and dug into the soil with his hand, looking for a sign of groundwater that in recent years has been in ...

Farmers lay grass grids in the desert around Kawak Township of Moyu County, Hotan Prefecture, northwest China's Xinjiang ...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment has issued the national action plan on combating desertification through 2030, ...

MOYU -- Desertification prevention-and-control, one of the top-priority missions in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region for ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Drylands represent 40 per cent of the world's land mass ...

Bonn, Germany, 21 February 2024 – This year’s Desertification and Drought Day, observed on 17 June, will focus on the future of land stewardship. Every second, an equivalent of four football fields of ...

On Tuesday, 20 September 2011, all Member States are invited to participate at the highest political level in the UN General Assembly high-level meeting on the theme, “Addressing desertification, land ...

African nations are fighting climate change with an 8,000 kilometer long Great Green Wall meant to combat the desertification of the Sahel region, home to over 100 million people. Spanning the entire ...

Preventing and combating desertification is identified as a key task, helping with nature and biodiversity conservation, ...

Andrew Slaughter is supported by the Global Water Futures (GWF) programme in his capacity as a Visiting Professor within the Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan. Dr ...