The ILO is urging governments to build employment protection into land restoration policies as degradation undermines rural ...

Desertification costs $878 billion a year. COP17 advanced drought finance and monitoring but failed to secure a global agreement as food risks grow.

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By Linda Krueger As the 17 UN-Convention to Combat Desertification Conference of the Parties (COP17) closed in Ulaanbaatar, ...

Around 1.2 billion jobs worldwide rely on healthy ecosystems, which means the loss of productive land can leave workers with fewer opportunities and families with less reliable income.

Video. Mongolia is hosting the UN Convention to Combat Desertification’s COP17 in Ulaanbaatar from 17 to 28 August, bringing together representatives from 196 countries and the European Union to ...

When discussing deserts, it’s important to keep in the mind the distinction between deserts as a specific ecosystem and desertification as a specific process. Deserts are beguiling and wondrous: ...

In a study published in Remote Sensing, scientists from the Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have employed a Desertification Difference Index ...

Desertification is a significant problem for arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid regions of Earth, whereby grasslands and shrublands become a comparatively barren desert as vegetation disappears over ...

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At the Ordos Ejin Horo International Airport in Ordos, North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Yin Yuzhen, a ...