{"id":4564,"date":"2019-08-15T09:52:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T06:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4564"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:28","slug":"combine-efforts-to-tackle-land-degradation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/15\/combine-efforts-to-tackle-land-degradation\/","title":{"rendered":"Combine Efforts To Tackle Land Degradation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scidev.net\/sub-saharan-africa\/author.ochieng-ogodo.html\">Ochieng&#8217; Ogodo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Land degradation and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scidev.net\/sub-saharan-africa\/environment\/desert-science\/\">desertification<\/a>\u00a0are rampant in several countries, especially in the developing world but combating them can be achieved only through combined efforts that include\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scidev.net\/sub-saharan-africa\/governance\/policy\/\">governments<\/a>, scientists, the private sector and the youth, experts told a meeting.<br> <br> About two billion hectares of land need to be restored globally and governments should act fast in mobilizing communities and resources to make this a reality, according to Ibrahim Thiaw, the executive secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) who was speaking at the World Day to Combat Desertification last week (17 June) in Turkey.<br> <br> \u201cLand restoration cannot be left in the hands of governments alone if success is hoped for in the near future,\u201d Thiaw says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/3\/x5318e\/x5318e02.htm\">Food\nand Agriculture Organization<\/a>&nbsp;says that African countries have lost a\nsignificant quantity of their soils to various forms of degradation. Serious\nerosion areas are found in countries such as Central African Republic, the\nDemocratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mauritania,\nNigeria, Niger, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Sudan and Somalia.<br>\n<br>\nCombating desertification, restoration of degraded land and soil, and striving\nto achieve a land degradation-neutral world by 2030 is a key target of\nthe&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.undp.org\/content\/undp\/en\/home\/sustainable-development-goals.html\">Sustainable\nDevelopment Goal<\/a>15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scidev.net\/sub-saharan-africa\/conservation\/news\/combine-efforts-to-tackle-land-degradation.html\">Read\nmore\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By:\u00a0Ochieng&#8217; Ogodo Land degradation and\u00a0desertification\u00a0are rampant in several countries, especially in the developing world but combating them can be achieved only through combined efforts that include\u00a0governments, scientists, the private sector&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}