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Climate change and desertification a threat to social stability - UN
2014-04-17 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: William Tell, in popular legend, takes a stand against a system that undermined his human dignity tyranny and oppression. He refused to bow down before the hat of the evil bailiff Gessler, but was then forced to shoot an apple off his sons head with a crossbow. This tale has a universal message. When you are pushed into a corner, your freedom and liberty are under pressure and your family and future are threatened, you take a stand. So why are we ignoring the fundamental threats to the liberty...
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Yes, Its True: Cattle Grazing Can Reverse Desertification
2014-04-01 19:36:58| Beef
On Monday, my blog in response to NPRs article blaming cattle grazing on the degradation of the environment and declining wildlife populations stirred up a lot of conversation. Many readers commented that while the content I provided to counter the misinformation presented in the article was good and valid, it wasnt going to reach the masses like the NPR piece did. BEEF Daily read more
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Senegal: Behind the rhetoric what is really being done to combat desertification?
2013-06-16 20:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: Like most people living along the Sahel the drylands between Africas tropical savannahs and the Sahara Desert Mustafa Ba is all too familiar with the effects of desertification. Thanks to a combination of overgrazing and deforestation, he has watched the countryside around his Senegalese village, Mboula, turn into a dusty, unproductive wasteland. Trees provide us with many benefits, explains Mustafa, as we sit on a mat in the centre of his village. They are good for the soil and important...
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Drought and Desertification - Global Response
2013-05-21 14:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Land degradation more specifically drought and desertification have become increasingly pressing problems for a growing number of countries around the world, threatening efforts to alleviate poverty, improve basic health and sanitation and address socioeconomic inequality, as well as spur agricultural and sustainable economic development. The only multilateral, international agreement linking development and environment to sustainable land management (SLM), high-level representatives from...
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Desertification crisis affecting 168 countries worldwide, study shows
2013-04-17 13:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RTCC: Severe land degradation is now affecting 168 countries across the world, according to new research released by the UN Desertification Convention (UNCCD). The figure, based on submissions from countries to the UN, is a marked increase on the last analysis in the mid-1990s, which estimated 110 states were at risk. In an economic analysis published last week the Convention also warns land degradation is now costing US$490 billion per year and wiping out an area three times the size of Switzerland...
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