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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The Creeping Desert - INTER PRESS SERVICE (06.04.2012 15:01h): Will Climate Refugees Get Promised Aid?
With extreme weather pounding countries across a wide arc in the Asia-Pacific region, questions hover over entitlements for millions of people displaced by climate change, pledged under the Green Climate Fund GCF and other sources. [
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The Creeping Desert - INTER PRESS SERVICE (22.03.2012 13:29h): Treat Illegal Logging Like Organised Crime, Urges World Bank
With illegal loggers clearing the equivalent of a football field of the world's most valuable forests every two seconds, local and international law enforcement systems should target the criminal operations that profit most from the trade, according to a new report released here Tuesday by the World Bank. [
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Rio+20 Summit (10.03.2012 06:54h): A Moment That Must Be Seized
The upcoming Rio+20 conference has to be the moment in human history when the nations of the world come together to find ways to ensure the very survival of humanity, many science and environmental experts believe. [
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ARGENTINA (24.02.2012 14:57h): Three-Quarters of "Breadbasket" Is Drylands
How has Argentina managed to maintain its image as one of the world's breadbaskets when a full three-fourths of its territory consists of drylands? This was one of the questions raised by the scientists who decided to create the National Observatory on Land Degradation and Desertification this year. [
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MAURITANIA (11.02.2012 09:04h): Ravaged by Drought - the Number of Malnourished Children Rises
Mariem Mint Ahmedou sits cross-legged on a worn-out carpet in a basic tent built with mud bricks and layers of sewn-together fabric. Her eight-month-old twins, Hussein and Hassan, lie weakly against her body. Both of them have been malnourished since birth, because Beydar, undernourished herself, cannot produce enough breast milk to feed them. [
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The Creeping Desert - INTER PRESS SERVICE (08.02.2012 00:31h): Cloud Seeding - Uncertain Solution for Mexico's Drought
As half of Mexico endures one of the most severe droughts in its history, cloud seeding appears to be a promising way to bring desperately needed rain, although it remains a source of controversy. [
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The Creeping Desert - INTER PRESS SERVICE (02.02.2012 03:48h): 2011 - A Year of Weather Extremes, with More to Come
The global average temperature in 2011 was 14.52 degrees Celsius 58.14 degrees Fahrenheit . According to NASA scientists, this was the ninth warmest year in 132 years of recordkeeping, despite the cooling influence of the La Niña atmospheric and oceanic circulation pattern and relatively low solar irradiance. [
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ARGENTINA (25.01.2012 16:18h): Drought Threat Looms Again
The low humidity in Argentina's most agriculturally productive region has already caused a decline in grain yield - in particular corn and soybean - with ensuing losses for producers and the government. [
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ARGENTINA (24.01.2012 03:35h): In Famatina, Water Is Worth Far More Than Gold
Thousands of people in the northwest Argentine province of La Rioja are mobilising to stop an open-cast gold mining project in the Nevados de Famatina, a snowy peak that is the semi-arid area's sole source of drinking
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The Creeping Desert - INTER PRESS SERVICE (09.01.2012 10:53h): Brown Revolution Brings New Hope
Picking spots for cattle to graze could reverse desertification and even do its bit to retard climate change, new experiments in Zimbabwe have shown. It's what is coming to be called the Brown Revolution. [
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KENYA (12.12.2011 11:35h): Thirsty Eucalyptus Good for Absorbing Carbon
On a steep slope of land in Thangathi village in Central Province, Kenya, Peter Nyaga surveys his four-year-old eucalyptus woodlot. He calculates the value of every tree on his two-hectare piece of land at maturity in three years. [
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AFRICA (02.12.2011 04:48h): Watermelon Farming in a Drought
On a Sunday evening, a track loaded with 10 tonnes of watermelons leaves Geoffrey Ndung'u's homestead in Kanyonga village in semi-arid Eastern Kenya. It travels past a village shopping centre were people have formed a queue to receive food aid because of a prolonged
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The Creeping Desert - INTER PRESS SERVICE (02.12.2011 04:48h): Observing Deforestation from Space
Global climate change can now be observed from space. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation FAO launched a new technology that can survey the world's forests via satellites and provide a more accurate, global picture of common threats to the environment, such as deforestation, degradation or illegal logging. [
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CLIMATE CHANGE-AFRICA (02.12.2011 04:48h): Farming By Phone
Francis Mburu used to keep indigenous cattle in Entasopia village in the semi- arid Kajiado region, 160 kilometres southwest of Nairobi. However, increasing temperatures and frequent droughts in Kenya have made this difficult in recent years. [
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The Creeping Desert - INTER PRESS SERVICE (02.12.2011 04:48h): Forest-Dependent Communities Lobby for End of REDD+
Organisations working with indigenous peoples living in forests say the United Nations programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries REDD+ is just another way for big corporates to reap huge profits. [
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The Creeping Desert - INTER PRESS SERVICE (29.11.2011 01:15h): "God Wants Us to Live in a Garden, Not a Desert"
The European Union plan to save the Kyoto Protocol may meet its greatest obstacle in the developing world. [
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CLIMATE CHANGE (23.11.2011 04:07h): Himalayan Nations Yet to Break the Ice
Chungda Sherpa, a former herder from eastern Nepal, has a warning tale ahead of the United Nations climate change conference in Durban. [
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AFRICA (19.11.2011 19:08h): Change the Donors Climate
When donor-funded horticultural projects failed in Kalacha village at the edge of the Chalbi Desert in North Eastern Province, Kenya, the local pastoralist community proposed their own idea, which turned out to be the solution to their problems. [
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Q&A (16.11.2011 00:23h): "Grabbing of Drylands is a Serious Concern"
Designated Drylands Ambassador, United Nations Convention for Combating Desertification UNCCD , at its 10th Conference of the Parties COP10 in South Korea in October, Dennis Garrity is mandated to raise awareness of land degradation. [
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The Creeping Desert - INTER PRESS SERVICE (03.11.2011 12:23h): Climate Change Could Unravel Development Progress
The United Nations unveiled its 22nd annual Human Development Report on Wednesday, with grave warnings that unless countries take action against climate change and implement sustainable solutions, progress in human development will be in serious jeopardy. [
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The Creeping Desert - INTER PRESS SERVICE (26.10.2011 08:47h): Hard Targets Needed to Halt Land Degradation Crisis
Every six seconds, a child dies of hunger-related causes. That disturbing reality seems as remote as the moon here in the ultra-modern Changwon Convention Centre, where delegates struggled to create effective ways to stem the ongoing decline of food-producing lands. [
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The Creeping Desert - INTER PRESS SERVICE (25.10.2011 14:38h): Civil Society Groups Call for Action to Curb Land Grabbing
Civil society organisations are calling on governments in developing countries to stop leasing and selling out land to transnational corporations because it leads to land degradation and food insecurity. [
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AFRICA (21.10.2011 13:54h): Gov'ts Fail to Invest in Hungriest, Poorest Regions
For millennia, people have coped with drought in the Horn of Africa, comprised mainly of drylands. Yet today, more than 13 million people there are starving because of political instability, poor government policies and failure to invest in the world's poorest people, say experts here in Changwon. [
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Q&A (21.10.2011 13:54h): 'Soil is Key to Global Warming, Food Security'
Luc Gnacadja, in his second three-year term as executive secretary, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification UNCCD , is widely seen as delivering on his commitment to manage the world's drylands. [
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AFRICA (20.10.2011 05:27h): "The Man Who Stopped the Desert"
Yacouba Sawadogo, a peasant farmer from Burkina Faso, is known as the "man who stopped the desert." But when he first tried to save his arid land from desertification by planting the trees that have since grown into a 15-hectare forest, people in his village thought he was mad. [
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