"Neglecting [it] risks pushing humanity beyond its safe operating space." Scientists sound alarm over rapidly growing threat ...

Climate change has made great swaths of the planet drier and soils saltier, jeopardizing food production and water access for ...

This has come at the expense of nature, causing 80% of deforestation and 70% of biodiversity loss on land. Soil degradation has reduced the productivity of nearly a quarter of the global land surface, ...

“All of these unfriendly environmental activities contribute to land degradation and desertification. These problems have over the years impacted negatively on the productivity of our ...

Land systems drive climate change through deforestation and the conversion of ecosystems, land degradation, and the production and consumption of food. Pressures on land will only increase unless we ...

During the Decade, all actors are called upon to raise awareness about desertification, land degradation and drought and their solutions. The Decade campaign is intended to reinforce the ...

For those farmers working in drier climates than Britain, climate change is resulting in land degradation – the quality of the land being farmed is decreasing. Land degradation affects almost ...

The WDC-PMKSY initiative is designed to address land degradation and promote the sustainable development of degraded and ...

With agriculture using roughly 70% of global freshwater, land and soil degradation are directly undermining agri-food systems with human-induced degradation contributing to “pushing land ...