"Neglecting [it] risks pushing humanity beyond its safe operating space." Scientists sound alarm over rapidly growing threat impacting land around the world: 'Policymakers should strengthen their ...

Land degradation affects more than 60% of global soil resources, due mostly to intensive agriculture and deforestation. Degraded land influences the lives of more than 1 billion people who rely on ...

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, ...

The Presidency emphasized that the new law aligns with South Africa’s strategic objectives for managing natural resources ...

Land degradation currently affects 1.9 billion hectares globally or about 65 per cent of global soil resources. With 85 per cent, soil erosion is the main contributor. Approximately 1.5 billion people ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the last forty years, 20 per cent of the Amazon basin has been cleared for a number of reasons, some of which are listed in the diagram below.

“COP16 led to the creation of these caucuses to amplify the voices of those most affected by land degradation, ensuring their unique knowledge is woven into the fabric of ongoing land ...

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 ...