INTERVIEW: How UNCCD, FAO, World Bank back Nigeria’s fight against drought, land degradation —Official

The official said Nigeria’s rangelands are facing increasing degradation due to desertification, land degradation and drought, with serious implications for farmer-herder conflicts, agricultural productivity and food security.

[RFI] Desertification is not the spread of deserts. It is the slow degradation of fertile land - a process that now affects 40 percent of the Earth's land surface and leaves around 100 million hectares of healthy land unproductive every year. As governments gather in Mongolia this week for the UN's Cop17 desertificatio