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UN report: Desertification a threat - Jun 27, 2007 USA TODAY - USA TodayBy Michael Casey, AP Environmental Writer. BANGKOK, Thailand — Desertification represents one of the "greatest environmental challenge of our times" and ... Israel proposes itself as world desertification research center - Nov 8, 2006 Jerusalem PostBy JASON TAITZ. Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, had a vision of making the desert bloom, and even moved to Sde Boker, where he died 33 ... State is undergoing a process of desertification: ISRO official - Aug 14, 2005 The HinduHARNESSING SPACE TECHNOLOGY: A satellite image of Bangalore. Satellite imageries help in identifying problem areas and facilitate proper planning for their ... UN desertification budget setback - Sep 15, 2007 BBC NewsBy Danny Wood. The United Nations has approved a 10-year strategic plan to tackle desertification, but has failed to reach an accord on the budget. ... Combating desertification is need of the hour - Jun 5, 2006 Hindu Business LineW orld Environment Day, commemorated each year on June 5, is one of the principal vehicles through which the UN stimulates worldwide awareness of the ... Qinghai Province controls desertification in Sanjiangyuan area - Sep 27, 2009 央视国际BEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhuanet) -- The governmnet of Qinghai Province, northwest China, has spent 12 million yuan RMB (1.77 million US dollars) checking ... Chinese Premier vows to curb desertification - Oct 8, 2007 央视国际Premier Wen Jiabao says China should work hard to control desertification and rebuild its ecological system. Premier Wen this week made an inspection tour ... Africa:Desertification 'A Threat to Two Billion People' - Jun 17, 2005 AllAfrica.comEnvironmental degradation is threatening the health and livelihoods of two billion people living in arid regions round the world, says an international team ... Parliaments Said to be "Weak" in Fighting Desertification - Jan 8, 2010 Inter Press ServiceMADRID, Sep 12 (IPS) - Legislatures have been taken to task over their track record in addressing desertification, this at the eighth session of the ... ENVIRONMENT: Sands Running Out for UN Desertification Treaty - Dec 22, 2009 Inter Press ServiceBy Tito Drago. MADRID, Sep 3 (IPS) - Concrete, firm and effective steps need to be taken by governments at the Eighth Conference of the Parties to the ... Ghana: The Threat of Desertification in Country - Jan 18, 2010 AllAfrica.comAccra — According to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), the greatest impact of desertification is in Africa. Two thirds of the continent, ... KKL-JNF helps combat desertification worldwide - Dec 28, 2008 Jerusalem PostMany countries view Israel as a professional authority on central ecological issues, of which the primary ones are combating desertification and forest ... South Africa: Desertification Poses a Threat to Animals, Crops, People - Jun 17, 2008 AllAfrica.comPretoria — Desertification is a threat to humanity and reduces the ability of the land to support life and thus affects wild species, domestic animals, ... Desertification in the Karoo - Dec 10, 2009 The GuardianDriving eastward out of the Cape, through the winelands around Paarl and away from the region of winter rainfall the landscape becomes arid. ... China making anti-desertification progress - May 29, 2006 Independent OnlineBeijing - China, with desert covering one third of its landmass, is slowing the rate at which desertification is eating up arable and other land but the ... China´s local governments pledge to combat desertification - Mar 28, 2007 央视国际Twelve Chinese provincial governments signed responsibility contracts with the State Forestry Administration (SFA) on Tuesday, pledging to make greater ... Kibaki calls for help on desertification - Oct 25, 2005 Kenya Broadcasting CorporationPresident Mwai Kibaki has called on the international community to increase financial and technological support in combating the effects of desertification. ... Nigeria: 35 Million At the Mercy of Desertification - Nov 21, 2008 AllAfrica.comThe effect of desertification is threatening the lives of 35 million Nigerians living in the Northern part of the country, Mr. Ononina Nkem, the director of ... BENIN: Cotton at the Heart of the Economy - and of Desertification - Dec 21, 2009 Inter Press ServiceBy Michée Boko. COTONOU, Dec 31 (IPS) - Cotton production forms a key part of the Beninese economy. However, Armande Zanou-Aivodji - point person for ... Africa: Parliaments Said to Be 'Weak' in Fighting Desertification - Sep 12, 2007 AllAfrica.comMadrid — Legislatures have been taken to task over their track record in addressing desertification, this at the eighth session of the Conference of the ... … -BURKINA-FASO: A Pilot Project That Defies Desertification - Jan 9, 2010 Inter Press ServiceBy Michée Boko. COTONOU, Apr 11 (IPS) - The village of Guié in central Burkina Faso may not have much name recognition in the grand scheme of things. ... Pakistan sitting on desertification and drought time bomb - Jun 3, 2006 Pay-Per-View - Hindustan Times - Factiva, from Dow JonesPeshawar, June 3 -- If reports of Balochistan and Sindh facing near drought situation were not bad news for Pakistan, well then brace for this one. ... Desertification process slowing down in China - Jun 16, 2005 ä¸å›½æ—¥æŠ¥Beijing's nearest desert is within a crow-fly distance of only 70 kilometers northwest of Tian'anmen Square, and this desertified area, located in adjacent ... allAfrica.com: South Africa: Enviro Officials Discuss Desertification - Sep 4, 2007 AllAfrica.comPretoria — Environmental officials from South Africa are meeting with their international counterparts at a conference in Spain, discussing ways of ... UN approves more money to fight desertification - Dec 7, 2009 Deccan HeraldA UN conference to battle spreading desertification agreed on Saturday to increase funding to halt its dangerous effects. Representatives from 190 countries ... MAURITANIA: Desertification threatens to wipe out livelihoods, … - Dec 2, 2008 Reuters AlertNetReuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the author's alone. ... Nigeria: Obsanjo Expresses Concern Over Desertification - Dec 8, 2006 AllAfrica.comAbuja — President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday expressed concern over the effect of desertification in Africa, and made history by launching the Green Wall ... FACTBOX: Five facts about desertification - Oct 8, 2007 Reuters UK...(Reuters) - About 1.2 billion people are at risk from desertification as deserts expand and degraded dry lands cover close to a third of the world's land ... Desertification may have retarded global warming | Science and … - Jan 25, 2010 Jerusalem PostBy EHUD ZION WALDOKS. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot recently made a surprising discovery about the abilities of forests to ... Nigeria: Desertification Affects 35 Million Nigerians, Says Govt - Nov 23, 2008 AllAfrica.comAbuja — No fewer than 35 million people located in about 10 states in northern Nigeria are facing threats of hunger and extreme weather conditions due to ... Desertification and its fallout - Jun 18, 2009 DAWN.com...'CONSERVING land and water' was the dominant theme of this year's World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, an event that was observed across the ... China seeks to roll back the sands - Sep 5, 2006 The HinduThis is but one example of the massive efforts that China is undertaking to fight desertification, an environmental phenomenon that is little understood ... UN warns of 70 per cent desertification by 2025 - Oct 6, 2009 Times of MaltaActivists holding giant effigies of the leaders of the G8 nations during a demonstration against global warming outside the headquarters of the UN office in ... Nigeria: Country Solicits IFAD's Assistance Over Desertification - Nov 28, 2008 AllAfrica.comAbuja — Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources, Sayyadi Ruma, has called for assistance from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) ... Madrid Conference Seeks Ways To Stop Desertification - Sep 3, 2007 RadioFreeEurope/RadioLibertySeptember 3, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- More than 2000 delegates from around the world have gathered in the Spanish capital to discuss ways to stop desertification, ... … AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Plans Against Desertification. But What of Funds? - Jan 8, 2010 Inter Press ServiceBy Jean Louis Gondamoyen. BANGUI, May 10 (IPS) - For many, the Central African Republic (CAR) is associated with political instability - a legacy of ... Desertification is 'economic not environmental' issue - Apr 20, 2006 SciDev.netNations affected by desertification must treat it as an agricultural and economic problem, instead of sidelining it as an environmental issue. ... Desertification defense line takes shape - Sep 12, 2005 ä¸å›½æ—¥æŠ¥Farmer Chen Yonggui has began to see greenery return after a ten-year fight against the desertification by growing a clump of desert bush on his barren land ... Nigeria: Desertification - Kano Plants 2.6 Million Trees - Oct 22, 2009 AllAfrica.comKano — Kano state government said desertification and deforestation are the major challenges facing the state and vowed to continue planting trees with a ... GM licorice could help stop desertification - Sep 8, 2008 Telegraph.co.ukBy Roger Highfield, Science Editor. Genetic modification could be used to make a sweetener found in licorice, and help halt desertification, say scientists ... Climate change, desertification put a billion poor at risk - Sep 19, 2007 HinduChennai: There are one billion poor people in the world who are vulnerable to climate change, desertification, land degradation, loss of biodiversity, ... Q&A: "You Clearly Saw the Horrors of Desertification" - Jan 8, 2010 Inter Press ServiceCOTONOU, Mar 15 (IPS) - Seven years of working in some of the poorest parts of Benin put Euloge Vidégla in the front lines of the battle against ... Call to stop desertification - Dec 31, 2006 HinduHYDERABAD: Deputy Inspector-General of Forests, Union Ministry of Forests and Environment Sanjay Kumar stressed the need for effectively tackling ... Dubai Meet Urges World to Fight Desertification - Apr 18, 2005 Arab NewsDUBAI, 18 April 2005 — Representatives from 40 countries, including presidents Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria and Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, have adopted ... Nigeria: Jigawa Partners Niger On Desertification - Mar 20, 2008 AllAfrica.comDutse — Jigawa State government and Niger republic have agreed to enter into bilateral relationship to design a common policy towards controlling ... Burning willows to stop desertification - May 11, 2009 ä¸å›½æ—¥æŠ¥By Zhang Qi (China Daily). A Shanxi entrepreneur is trying to turn a profit and green Inner Mongolia at the same time. ... Rwanda: UN Report Urges MPs to Lead Desertification Fight - Sep 14, 2007 AllAfrica.comMadrid — Parliamentarians must play a critical role in the fight against desertification, a UN forum on climate change has urged. ... ENVIRONMENT-CUBA: Sugarcane a Culprit in Soil Depletion - Jan 8, 2010 Inter Press ServiceWorldwide, desertification processes cause losses of 42 billion dollars annually. ... "The major desertification processes emerge as a result of historic ... Desertification has dangerous consequences, say experts - Jun 6, 2006 Pay-Per-View - The Hindu - Factiva, from Dow JonesThere is a very thin dividing line between dry lands and desertification, because prolonged neglect or over exploitation of dry lands can accelerate the ... One in six countries facing food shortage - Jun 30, 2005 The GuardianResearchers are reporting a general drying of the land and growth of desertification in the Mediterranean region. "The 20-year average clearly shows a ... Nigeria: Yar'Adua Opens World Desertification Summit in Bauchi Today - Jun 17, 2008 AllAfrica.comPresident Umaru Musa Yar'Adua will lead a high-powered government delegation and other environmental stakeholders, including 19 northern state governors, ... Q&A: "After the Initial Warnings About Desertification, We Could Have... - Dec 21, 2009 Inter Press ServiceCOTONOU, Jun 20 (IPS) - Years of working in West Africa have given agricultural technician Henri Girard many insights into what is needed to halt land ... UN holds desertification summit in Spain - Sep 7, 2007 Environmental Data InteractiveDelegates from 191 countries are meeting in Madrid this month for the presentation of a plan to tackle desertification in the world's poorest countries. ... Spain warns desert is spreading - Jun 18, 2005 The GuardianSpain's environment ministry has announced a £50m programme to combat desertification. Over-grazing and irrigation methods that wash away topsoil were to ... Nigeria: Desertification - World Bank to Assist Country On Tree... - Sep 25, 2008 AllAfrica.comThe World Bank will assist Nigeria in its quest to plant one billion trees across the country's six geopolitical zones to reduce the negative impacts of ... Conference Circuit - Oct 22, 2006 Jerusalem PostMore than 200 participants from over 30 countries are expected to participate in an international conference on "Deserts and Desertification: Challenges and ... World Day to Combat Desertification Focal Point Is Human Security - Jun 17, 2009 RedOrbitHuman security is under threat from desertification, land degradation and drought. Combating this threat requires an integrated international response, ... Q&A: "People Often Cannot Avoid Putting at Risk the Natural Resource ... - Jan 8, 2010 Inter Press ServiceCOTONOU, Jun 10 (IPS) - With the World Day to Combat Desertification set to take ... Globally, desertification threatens the livelihoods of more than 1.2 ... Desertification is 'twin of climate change' - Jun 20, 2007 CitizenQUEENSTOWN – Desertification was the “terrible twin evilâ€? of climate change, deputy environment minister Rejoice Mabudafhasi said in the Eastern Cape on ... China grasslands face severe desertification despite protection - Jul 1, 2008 央视国际HOHHOT, June 30 (Xinhua) -- China grasslands are still suffering severe desertification despite government funding of more than 10 billion yuan (144 million ... Africa: UN Marks June 17 World Day to Combat Desertification - Jun 15, 2006 AllAfrica.comBonn — The devastating consequences of desertification can be seen and felt all over the world. About 3.6 billion of the world's 5.2 billion hectares of ... China: A land turned to dust - Jun 4, 2005 New ScientistThis will cause desertification and rob the poverty-stricken farmers of water that they need for subsistence cropping." And in the spring, the trees are ... WEST AFRICA: From Desertification, to Migration, to Conflict - Dec 21, 2009 Inter Press ServiceBy Fulgence Zamblé. TABOU, Jan 4 (IPS) - It has been three years since Brahima Ouédraogo, a small-scale farmer from Burkina Faso, arrived in a little ... Desertification: UN Experts Prescribe Global Policy Overhaul To Avoid... - Jul 3, 2007 Medical News Today - Medical News Today (press release)Desertification, exacerbated by climate change, represents 'the greatest environmental challenge of our times' and governments must overhaul policy ... Scientists eye Med desertification at Crete meeting - Jan 11, 2010 Αθηναικο Î Ï?ακτοÏ?είο Ειδήσεων - Αθηναικο Î Ï?ακτοÏ?είο ΕιδήσεωνThe island of Crete, in the southern Aegean, is among the regions most threatened with desertification -- the transformation of arable or habitable land ... Migration: China's answer to desertification, poverty - Jun 22, 2006 Times of IndiaYINCHUAN (CHINA): Ningxia, a desert region in China's southwest, has turned into the theatre of one of the biggest human migrations in world history. ... Nigeria: Minister Lists Desertification, Drought As Country's... - Jan 20, 2009 AllAfrica.comAbuja — Minister of Environment, John Odey, has warned that drought and desert encroachment are the most potent environmental problems that could cause ... Angola: Ecologist Wants Practical Action Against Desertification - Jun 17, 2005 AllAfrica.comLuanda — The spokesperson for the Angola Ecological Youth (JEA), José Silva, today in Luanda defended the need for concrete measures in the implementation ... Nigeria: Issues on the Desertification Commission Bill - Nov 11, 2008 AllAfrica.comThe proposed National Desertification Commission recently scaled the crucial second reading stage at the Senate when the bill was unanimously passed. ... Premier vows to curb desertification - Oct 2, 2007 ä¸å›½æ—¥æŠ¥BEIJING -- China should make utmost efforts to control desertification and sandification and rebuild the ecological system, said Premier Wen Jiabao during ... … Day to Combat Desertification - DESERTIFICATION, the phenomenon of... - Jun 17, 2006 Pay-Per-View - Manila Bulletin - Factiva, from Dow JonesWorldwide recognition of desertification as a transnational environmental problem did not come about until 1968, when a severe drought struck the Sahel, ... Angola: Ecologist Wants Practical Action Against Desertification - Jun 18, 2005 AllAfrica.comLuanda — The spokesperson for the Angola Ecological Youth (JEA), José Silva, Friday in Luanda defended the need for concrete measures in the implementation ... African dream of a 'green wall' to prevent desertification - Nov 13, 2009 Telegraph.co.ukThere are only a few small acacia shrubs to show for it at the moment, but Senegal's leader believes in a great green wall that would stem desertification ... DEVELOPMENT-NIGER: Land Degradation No Match for Speculators - Jan 8, 2010 Inter Press Service...notes a report titled 'Sahel Studies' issued in September 2006 by African and western specialists on desertification, at a workshop for land restoration ... 10 years needed to curb desertification around world's highest... - Sep 17, 2007 ä¸å›½æ—¥æŠ¥China would need at least 10 years to curb desertification that is exacerbating erosion around the world's highest and largest wetlands, the Sanjiangyuan ... Rwanda: Ups and Downs in Combating Desertification and Drought - Jun 17, 2008 AllAfrica.comKigali — June 17 is a day set by the UN to combat desertification and drought world wide. However, as we celebrate the day, a number of issues related to ... How the World Works - Salon.com - Jun 5, 2006 SalonNo surprise, then, that in the world of "women and desertification" studies Maathai's name is never more than a footnote or sidebar away. ... South Africa: SA Celebrates Efforts to Combat Desertification - Jun 23, 2005 AllAfrica.comAn event is underway in Kimberly, Northern Cape to celebrate the country's efforts to combat desertification. Environmental Affairs and Tourism Deputy ... Cyprus runs risk of desertification: geophysicist - Jan 9, 2009 Reuters IndiaBy Sarah Ktisti. NICOSIA (Reuters) - Cyprus runs the risk of desertification by the end of this century as it feels the brunt of climate change and drought, ... Zimbabwe: Govt in Drive to Combat Desertification - Jul 14, 2007 AllAfrica.comHarare — GOVERNMENT has set up a taskforce to help combat desertification that is now visible in some parts of the country. In an interview yesterday, ... Ghana: Threats of Desertification Must Be Taken Seriously - May 21, 2007 AllAfrica.comAccra — We can no longer afford to ignore warnings of Climate change and desertification in Ghana. This follows revelations by the Environmental Protection ... Burkina Faso: A Pilot Project That Defies Desertification - Apr 11, 2007 AllAfrica.comCotonou — The village of Guié in central Burkina Faso may not have much name recognition in the grand scheme of things. But for more than a decade, ... … : ENVIRONMENTALISTS ATTEND UN SUMMIT ON DESERTIFICATION. - Sep 4, 2007 Free with registration - Inter Press Service - AccessMyLibrary.comBy Tito Drago. MADRID, Spain, Sep. 3, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- The prince and princess of Asturias inaugurated the Eighth Conference of the Parties to the United ... Negev 'laboratory' offers hope in battle against desertification - Apr 26, 2007 Jerusalem PostBy LAURA RHEINHEIMER. Israel is fulfilling a unique role as a laboratory for combatting growing desertification, offering hope to countries around the world ... ICRISAT director-general to chair UN desertification body - Sep 12, 2007 The HinduChennai, September 12: The Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) recently elected Dr William D Dar ... … : CONSERVATION LEADER DISCUSSES DESERTIFICATION. - Sep 17, 2007 Free with registration - Inter Press Service - AccessMyLibrary.comBy Miche Boko. COTONOU, Benin, Sep. 14, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- There is cause for optimism about the environmental situation in Cameroon, but serious problems ... Nigeria: Tunisia to Help Nigeria Combat Desertification - Feb 3, 2010 AllAfrica.comNigeria could learn from the Tunisian experience in fighting off desert encroachment, the Tunisian Ambassador to Nigeria Moncef Gouja has said. ... Nigeria: Why I'm Passionate About Fighting Desertification - Sen Lawan - Oct 13, 2007 AllAfrica.comYou recently moved a motion for the establishment of Desertification Control Commission (DCC), what informed that decision? Ahmed Lawan: I was first elected ... Nigeria: Combating Desertification And Drought (ii) - Jun 2, 2009 AllAfrica.comIn terms of the changes it brings, desertification is viewed as an adverse environmental process. The negative descriptors used in these definitions of ... Climate change and desertification compounds water and sanitation … - Mar 21, 2007 Reuters AlertNet...by Robert Fraser, Senior Officer, Water and Sanitation Unit, Geneva. Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any ... Nigeria: Desertification - Country Loses 600 Meters of Land Mass... - Jan 26, 2009 AllAfrica.comAbuja — Current statistics by the Federal Ministry of Environment shows that Nigeria Losses about 600 meters yearly of its arable land mass to desert ... Algeria: Fighting Desertification Through Conservation - Feb 27, 2007 AllAfrica.comAlgiers — In May, Algeria will inaugurate a reserve around a small oasis in the south-west where plants and animals will be protected in the service of a ... China plants trees to hold back desertification - Jun 18, 2007 Reuters UKBy Nick Mulvenney. DUOLUN COUNTY, China (Reuters) - Until giant sand dunes swallowed his home, Deng Baogui was a shepherd and wheat farmer in an Inner ... Senate's battle against ecological challenges - Nov 16, 2008 The PunchSub themes, which were considered included: desertification, climatic change and the challenge of poverty, food security in Nigeria : Boosting the capacity ... Desertification and Environmental Health Trends in China - Apr 2, 2007 wilsoncenter.orgBy Linden Ellis. The vast deserts in northwest and north-central China are moving east. Overgrazing and excessive water withdrawals for agriculture have ... Tibet to spend 2 bln yuan curbing desertification - Jun 19, 2009 央视国际BEIJING, June 18 (Xinhuanet) -- The Tibet Autonomous Region has brought more than 40000 hectares of desertified land under control, and plans to infuse more ... Desertification plan - Aug 28, 2009 Salt Lake Tribune, The - Salt Lake TribuneThe proposed Snake Valley water agreement between Utah and Nevada is no go ! The water is not ours to negotiate. It is not current runoff, ... Conference Circuit - Oct 29, 2006 Jerusalem PostMore than 200 participants from over 30 countries are expected to participate in an international conference on 'Deserts and Desertification: Challenges and ... Desertification: Katsina plants 3 million trees - Oct 21, 2009 The PunchBy Agency Reporter, Published: Wednesday, 21 Oct 2009. The Katsina State Governmentplanted three million trees this year, as part of efforts to check desert ... LATIN AMERICA: Desertification – an Invisible Cancer - Sep 18, 2009 Inter Press ServiceBy Marcela Valente. BUENOS AIRES, Sep 18 , 2009 (IPS) - "Desertification is the cancer of the earth," Argentine geographer Elena Abraham told IPS. ... The Launch of Project Survival Media - 05 Aug 2009 It's Getting Hot In HereIt is right now. * Desertification is running rampant in Africa, detrimentally exasperating every social and health issue. Green Shoots in Palestine - 05 Aug 2009 New York Times...region today — beginning with environmental degradation — the toxic combination of rising desertification, water shortages and population explosion. Rangers v rebels: fight to save rare gorillas - 05 Aug 2009 IndependentThe threat of desertification prompted the government to try a charcoal ban earlier this year, which prompted angry protests. The action was taken after 60 Straight talk on Barak - 05 Aug 2009 Indian Express...share of lean-season flows under the 1996 Ganges Treaty for the intended purpose of resuscitating the Gorai and saving Khulna from “desertificationâ€?. August 3: Columbus sets sail on famous journey, NBA is established - 05 Aug 2009 Examiner.comIt is also Arbor Day in the country because trees are planted across the nation to help fight the desertification of the country. The Heat is On: Summer Fires Rage in Mediterranean - 05 Aug 2009 Treehugger...the amount of carbon dioxide in the air, damage the soil, and can aggravate other environmental problems, including erosion and desertification. Nigeria: 'Aggressive Tree Planting Will Check Desertification' - Jul 30, 2009 AllAfrica.com...the problem of desertification, which is threatening lives of about 35 million Nigerians, can only be addressed through aggressive planting of trees. Iraq in throes of environmental catastrophe, experts say - Jul 29, 2009 Los Angeles TimesNow the Agriculture Ministry estimates that 90% of the land is either desert or suffering from severe desertification, and that the remaining arable land is Tunis hosts UN meeting to tackle desertification - Jul 31, 2009 magharebia.comDesertification claims 10 million hectares worldwide every year, according to UN figures. At a meeting July 28th, African nations agreed to continue Solution to desertification: Build a massive desert wall - Jul 27, 2009 Philadelphia MetroArchitect Magnus Larsson has presented a solution, the BBC reports, to the so-called desertification of North Africa: a desert wall made up of the very UN chief discusses climate change in Mongolia - Jul 27, 2009 AFP..."You are part of the one third of the world's population -- two billion people -- who are potential victims of desertification," Ban told the landlocked Chinese plant herb combats desertification, brings profit - Jul 26, 2009 XinhuaTo combat desertification, Saxaul-cistanche shrubs are spread on the vast deserts of west China. Saxaul-cistanche shrubs also serve as wind barriers on the Climate Bill Would Raise Costs Slightly - Aug 4, 2009 New York TimesAlso, please consider the negative impact on the economy of doing nothing: desertification leading to massive loss of arable land and productivity, Is it a result of climate change or something else? Part 2. - Jul 30, 2009 Christian Science MonitorThe writer looks at some of the week's environmental news – the UN climate chief visited Mongolia, a semiarid country undergoing rapid desertification, How to stop desertification? - Jul 24, 2009 UN Dispatch..."The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand," said Mr Larsson, who describes himself as a dune architect. Time to bail out planet from the effects of climate change - Aug 4, 2009 Business Daily AfricaOne third of the world's population – two billion people – are potential victims of desertification. Three-quarters of all disasters globally are now Tunisia hosts UN conference on fight against desertification - Jul 30, 2009 Tunisia Online NewsTunis is currently hosting the preparatory meeting to the 9 th conference of the parties which signed the agreement to combat desertification which is due Water Crisis in Iraq: The Growing Danger of Desertification - Jul 23, 2009 Middle East Media Research InstituteIn Iraq, the ever growing shortage of water is threatening a fertile land with desertification. Half a century ago, the region sought to control flooding. Iraq, Birthplace of Agriculture, Now Imports 80% of Food - Aug 1, 2009 AllGovIraqi agricultural officials say 90% of the land is either desert or suffering from severe desertification, and what's left of the arable land is Nigeria: Desertification - Sokoto NYSC Plants 1000 Trees - Jul 16, 2009 AllAfrica.com...to plant one thousand assorted economic trees across the state, as part of its contribution towards curbing desertification in the North West region. Agriculture Ministry holds consultative council - Aug 3, 2009 AngolaPressThe document refers that they will also analyse matters concerning programmes to fight desertification, agricultural production, animal health, 'Iraq's dried marshes cause dust cover' - Aug 3, 2009 GulfNewsAccording to the Iraqi Ministry of Agriculture, about 90 per cent of Iraq's land has either turned into desert or is experiencing severe desertification. President Ben Ali receives FAO's Director General - Jul 21, 2009 Tunisia Online NewsTunis, July 21, 2009- President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali received on Tuesday the Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Fighting desertification: FG approves increased budgetary allocation - Jul 26, 2009 TriumphTHE federal government has resolved to increase funding for desertification control programmes and projects in its future budgetary allocations, Desertification: FG to cultivate 16000 hectares of trees - Jul 23, 2009 TriumphWorried by continuous threats to soil by desertification, land degradation and the effects of climate change, the federal government has said that it will Niger votes on giving president 3rd term - Aug 4, 2009 The Associated PressRoutinely hit by periodic drought, food shortages and desertification, Niger is ranked 173 out of 177 nations on the UN's human development index. Opinions differ on cause of UAE dust - Aug 3, 2009 The NationalIt said: “Some causes included regional drought, water diversion, desertification and power shortages that interfere with irrigation systems. Tunisia - PM receives executive secretary of UN convention on ... - Jul 27, 2009 ISRIAPrime minister Mohamed Ghannouchi received, on Monday in Tunis, executive secretary of the UN convention on fight against desertification (UNCCD) Luc Report identifies political discord as aggravators for water shortage - Jul 28, 2009 Daily Star - LebanonOf the four areas discussed –desertification, air pollution, water scarcity, and climate change – Lebanon fared well in the first two categories, Pinar del Rio Fights Desertification - Jul 9, 2009 Havana TimesHAVANA TIMES, July 10 (IPS) - The southern plain of the westernmost Cuban province of Pinar del RÃo, which is suffering from desertification and drought, Iraq's forgotten crisis - Jul 18, 2009 guardian.co.ukDesertification and worsening sandstorms are forcing a flight of population to the cities. The consequences of this urbanisation place more pressure on the desertification destroys ninawa villages - Jul 17, 2009 niqashWhole villages in Ninawa province are being abandoned as a result of drought and increasing desertification which is making life impossible for those who Interview with Sean Gallagher, China Radio International - Aug 3, 2009 Reuters AlertNetSean Gallagher joined a panel discussion with China Radio International on Thursday, July 30th, to speak about desertification in China. Daily Briefing: Thurs. - Jul 30, 2009 Mother Nature NetworkThe heart of the Fertile Crescent — where agriculture first took root roughly 10000 years ago — is now plagued by drought, desertification and dust storms World Vision launches natural regeneration project - Aug 3, 2009 Ghana News Agency...of re-forestation where sprouting tree stumps are natured by farmers on their farms to grow into trees to save the environment from desertification. Grassland deterioration strikes Maqu prairie in NW China - Jul 25, 2009 XinhuaSoundbite: Yang Linping, Deputy Director of Husbandry and Forestry Bureau Now the desertification area speeds up 200 hectares per year. Land degradation may lead to increase in poverty - Jul 24, 2009 Pakistan Daily MailThese experts see linkages among desertification, land degradation and drought and term these three as a source of threat to the human security. Nigeria: Climate Change - A Threat to The Country's Development - Jul 14, 2009 AllAfrica.comWhile excessive flooding during the past decade has hurt farming in coastal communities, desertification is ravaging the Sahel. China must combat climate change: UN chief - Jul 29, 2009 Thaindian.comThree-quarters of the country's grasslands are threatened by desertification and extreme weather events are increasing in frequency. One Billion Hungry People: Multiple Causes Of Food Insecurity ... - Jul 14, 2009 Science Daily (press release)Topics include desertification, flooding, adaptation of remote communities to modern technology, seasonality of food crops and the corresponding dearth Eritrea: Mendefera Sub-Zone - Vigorous Efforts Being Made to ... - Jul 29, 2009 AllAfrica.com...been put under cultivation and stressed the need for the local inhabitants to make vigorous efforts to prevent deforestation and desertification. Nigeria: Katsina Emir Leads Tree Planting Campaign to Varsity - Jul 21, 2009 AllAfrica.com...of planting one million trees at Umaru Musa Yar'adua University in Katsina to fight the menace of desertification and desert encroachment in the state. Flood damages top US$241 million, climate change effects imminent - Jul 31, 2009 Namibia EconomistKatjavivi said in a speech delivered in London that in terms of its arid environment, recurrent drought and desertification, Namibia is extremely Desert Engulfing Nouakchott in Mauritania - Jul 24, 2009 TreehuggerA new United Nations report reminds us that :- "Desertification — land degradation in arid and semi-arid areas — is a pressing global environmental United Nations: Climate Change and Unemployment Threaten Arab ... - Jul 22, 2009 UN SyriaThe report issued today in Beirut said that the unremitting desertification threatens nearly fifth of the overall Arab region. The UN report for the year Muhammad Hassan-Tom - Aug 2, 2009 NEXT...onset of climate change and ravaging desertification in the north drove millions of them into urban centres without any skills to fend for themselves. Healthy effects of green office - Jul 20, 2009 The Sun DailyHe cites research from around the world to back up his case against office desertification. Researchers at the University of Technology in Sydney have found Climate clock is ticking - Jul 21, 2009 Canada.comArid and semi-arid regions such as the Mediterranean basin, the Middle East, North Africa and coastal Australia will become drier and desertification will [an error occurred while processing this directive] archives | news | XML / RSS feed | featured
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