IPS Inter Press Service The Creeping Desert Feed Summary
Desertification could force some 60 million to migrate from sub-Saharan Africa to Northern Africa and Europe by 2020. More than 250 million people worldwide directly suffer the effects of desertification, and another 1.2 billion in 110 countries are threatened by this degradation of otherwise arable and habitable land — caused by climate change and by unsustainable land-use practices like overgrazing, deforestation and burning. IPS offers insights into a phenomenon that is undermining development in Africa and around the world, and which requires the immediate attention of the international community and local peoples alike.
IPS Inter Press Service The Creeping Desert
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ARGENTINA (20.06.2010 06:47h): Turning Wasteland into Woodland
In Santiago del Estero, one of the Argentine provinces hit hardest by deforestation and desertification, an oasis of native tree species is being created to restore the soil and entice back farmers who were forced to leave their land. [
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KENYA (20.06.2010 06:47h): Insuring Pastoralists Against Increasing Risks
The droughts in the Turkana region were less severe when she was growing up, says Laura Letapalel, and pastoralists could still find some grass and water for their animals. Now, she laments, the droughts are longer and there is nothing to eat. [
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MALI (20.06.2010 06:47h): Small Farmers in the Carbon Market
Mohamed Abd Khibé is a caretaker at the acacia nursery in Dialoubé village, part of a project to sequester carbon in trees while simultaneously improving farmers' livelihoods. [
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ENVIRONMENT (20.06.2010 06:47h): Wildfires Spreading as Temperatures Rise
Future firefighters have their work cut out for them. Perhaps nowhere does this hit home harder than in Australia, where in early 2009 a persistent drought, high winds, and record high temperatures set the stage for the worst wildfire in the country's history. [
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DEVELOPMENT (20.06.2010 06:47h): Climate Change Likely to Increase African Hunger Woes
Africa, the continent already most affected by hunger and food scarcity, is likely to see its woes increased due to climate change and the changing rain patterns it provokes, experts and scientists say. [
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CLIMATE CHANGE (20.06.2010 06:47h): The Rising Tide of Environmental Refugees
Our early twenty-first century civilisation is being squeezed between advancing deserts and rising seas. [
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Q&A (20.06.2010 06:47h): Desertification and Climate Change Go Hand in Hand
"The entire social fabric of an area is compromised when soils are depleted," says Italian expert Massimo Candelori, whose fight against desertification is increasingly linked to global efforts to combat climate change. [
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CLIMATE CHANGE (20.06.2010 06:47h): Food Supply Hangs in the Balance
Rocketing food prices and hundreds of millions more starving people will be part of humanity's grim future without concerted action on climate change and new investments in agriculture, experts reported this week. [
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ENVIRONMENT (20.06.2010 06:47h): Synergies in Fight Against Desertification , Climate Change
Climate change aggravates soil degradation, but sustainable use of land resources can, in turn, mitigate global warming, according to participants at the United Nations conference on desertification in the Argentine capital. [
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ENVIRONMENT (20.06.2010 06:47h): Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilisation?
In early 2008, Saudi Arabia announced that, after being self-sufficient in wheat for over 20 years, the non-replenishable aquifer it had been pumping for irrigation was largely depleted. [
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ENVIRONMENT (20.06.2010 06:47h): Desertification - a Macroeconomic Problem
Understanding desertification as a macroeconomic problem, with financial, productive, environmental and civil society aspects, is a major concern for Christian Mersmann, the managing director of the Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification UNCCD . [
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LATIN AMERICA (20.06.2010 06:47h): Desertification – an Invisible Cancer
"Desertification is the cancer of the earth," Argentine geographer Elena Abraham told IPS. "It is a process of degradation that does not manifest itself in spectacular ways but furtively advances, and by the time it is visible there is nothing to be done, and people have to move away, in search of an alternative." [
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MALI (20.06.2010 06:47h): Technology Transfer So Slow "We'll Have to Copy Like China"
Cars and motorcycles are stuck because of the heavy rains that have drenched Mali's capital for the past few days. It is late afternoon and the water, mud and damaged fruit from nearby stalls make the journey for those heading home to celebrate Ramadan even more treacherous. [
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BRAZIL (20.06.2010 06:47h): When the Arid Northeast Turns Green
The rain - usually much desired because it is so scarce - has come in excess this year, destroying many crops. But in this farming district in far north-eastern Brazil, the impact of the heavy rainfall was less marked than in the past, thanks to the diversification of crops and productive activities. [
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BRAZIL (20.06.2010 06:47h): Courts - the Battleground for Fight Against Paper Mills
The battle against the wood pulp ndustry has intensified in the Brazilian courts, especially in those states where eucalyptus plantations have expanded the most: Bahia and Espírito Santo in the east and Rio Grande do Sul in the south. [
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KENYA (01.01.1970 00:00h): Insuring Pastoralists Against Increasing Risks
NAIROBI, Feb 4 (IPS) - The droughts in the Turkana region were less severe when she was growing up, says Laura Letapalel, and pastoralists could still find some grass and water for their animals. Now, she laments, the droughts are longer and there is nothing to eat. [
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MALI (01.01.1970 00:00h): Small Farmers in the Carbon Market
BAMAKO, Jan 16 (IPS) - Mohamed Abd Khibé is a caretaker at the acacia nursery in Dialoubé village, part of a project to sequester carbon in trees while simultaneously improving farmers' livelihoods. [
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ENVIRONMENT (01.01.1970 00:00h): Wildfires Spreading as Temperatures Rise
WASHINGTON, Nov 19 (IPS) - Future firefighters have their work cut out for them. Perhaps nowhere does this hit home harder than in Australia, where in early 2009 a persistent drought, high winds, and record high temperatures set the stage for the worst wildfire in the country's history. [
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DEVELOPMENT (01.01.1970 00:00h): Climate Change Likely to Increase African Hunger Woes
BERLIN, Nov 18 (IPS) - Africa, the continent already most affected by hunger and food scarcity, is likely to see its woes increased due to climate change and the changing rain patterns it provokes, experts and scientists say. [
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CLIMATE CHANGE (01.01.1970 00:00h): The Rising Tide of Environmental Refugees
WASHINGTON, Oct 22 (IPS) - Our early twenty-first century civilisation is being squeezed between advancing deserts and rising seas. [
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Q&A (01.01.1970 00:00h): Desertification and Climate Change Go Hand in Hand
BUENOS AIRES, Oct 6 (Tierramérica) - "The entire social fabric of an area is compromised when soils are depleted," says Italian expert Massimo Candelori, whose fight against desertification is increasingly linked to global efforts to combat climate change. [
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CLIMATE CHANGE (01.01.1970 00:00h): Food Supply Hangs in the Balance
UXBRIDGE, Canada, Oct 2 (IPS) - Rocketing food prices and hundreds of millions more starving people will be part of humanity's grim future without concerted action on climate change and new investments in agriculture, experts reported this week. [
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ENVIRONMENT (01.01.1970 00:00h): Synergies in Fight Against Desertification , Climate Change
BUENOS AIRES, Sep 30 (IPS) - Climate change aggravates soil degradation, but sustainable use of land resources can, in turn, mitigate global warming, according to participants at the United Nations conference on desertification in the Argentine capital. [
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BRAZIL (01.01.1970 00:00h): Courts - the Battleground for Fight Against Paper Mills
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Sep 15 (Tierramérica) - The battle against the wood pulp ndustry has intensified in the Brazilian courts, especially in those states where eucalyptus plantations have expanded the most: Bahia and Espírito Santo in the east and Rio Grande do Sul in the south. [
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Q&A (01.01.1970 00:00h): 'If You Feed the Land, It Will Feed You Back'
BONN, Aug 19 (IPS) - Luc Gnacadja, who took over as Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification UNCCD last October, is a man with a mission - a mission that goes beyond explaining that his job is not to battle deserts. [
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