Drylands occupy more than 40% of the world’s land area and are home to some two billion people. This includes a disproportionate number of the world’s poorest people, who live in degraded and severely degraded landscapes. The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification states on its website that 12 million hectares are lost annually to desertification and drought, and that more than 1.5 billion people are directly dependent on land that is being degraded, leading to US$42 billion in lost earnings each year.
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2020Algérie, Soudan, Érythrée, Éthiopie, Soudan du Sud, Cameroun, République centrafricaine, Tchad, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritanie, Niger, Nigéria, Sénégal
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Library ResourceArticles et Livresdécembre, 2018Égypte, Soudan, Kenya, République-Unie de Tanzanie, Afrique australe, Afrique du Sud, Nigéria, Mexique, Brésil, Colombie, Équateur, Pérou, États-Unis d'Amérique, Japon, Philippines, Iran, Népal
Agriculture influences and shapes the world’s ecosystems, but not always in a positive way. More than 2.5 billion people are globally involved as stewards of land and water ecosystems that constitute the natural resource base for feeding the current and future world population. Yet, conventional agronomic interventions based on ‘hard’ agricultural engineering compromise various eco-services that are required for sustainable agricultural development.
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Publication évaluée par des pairsjuin, 2020Algérie, Soudan, Érythrée, Éthiopie, Soudan du Sud, Cameroun, République centrafricaine, Tchad, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritanie, Niger, Nigéria, SénégalThe Re-Greening of the West African Sahel has attracted great interdisciplinary interest since it was originally detected in the mid-2000s. Studies have investigated vegetation patterns at regional scales using a time series of coarse resolution remote sensing analyses. Fewer have attempted to explain the processes behind these patterns at local scales. This research investigates bottom-up processes driving Sahelian greening in the northern Central Plateau of Burkina Faso—a region recognized as a greening hot spot.
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Volume 9 Issue 5
Publication évaluée par des pairsmai, 2020Algérie, Soudan, Érythrée, Éthiopie, Soudan du Sud, Cameroun, République centrafricaine, Tchad, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritanie, Niger, Nigéria, SénégalDesertification is defined as land degradation occurring in the global drylands. It is one of the global problems targeted under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 15). The aim of this article is to review the history of desertification and to evaluate the scientific evidence for desertification spread and severity. First quantitative estimates of the global extent and severity of desertification were dramatic and resulted in the establishment of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in 1994. UNCCD’s task is to mitigate the negative impacts of desertification in drylands.
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Library ResourceDocuments et rapports de conférencedécembre, 2015Afrique septentrionale, Égypte, Maroc, Soudan, Tunisie, Afrique orientale, Burundi, Djibouti, Érythrée, Éthiopie, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Soudan du Sud, République-Unie de Tanzanie, Zambie, Zimbabwe, Afrique centrale, Angola, Cameroun, République centrafricaine, Tchad, Congo, République démocratique du Congo, Gabon, Afrique australe, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibie, Afrique du Sud, Eswatini, Afrique occidentale, Bénin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Guinée, Côte d'Ivoire, Libéria, Mali, Mauritanie, Niger, Nigéria, Sénégal, Sierra Leone, Togo
Land degradation and desertification are among the biggest environmental challenges of our time. In the last 40 years, we lost nearly a third of the world’s arable farmland due to erosion, just as the number of people to be fed from it almost doubled. That’s why the UN General Assembly declared 2015 as the International Year of Soils. And the good news is that this new report shows that while Africa remains the most severely a«ected region, the benefit of taking action across the continent outweighs the cost of implementing it: not just by a little, but by a factor of seven.
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