{"id":5606,"date":"2019-09-27T10:58:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T07:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5606"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","slug":"desertification-a-threat-to-africas-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/27\/desertification-a-threat-to-africas-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Desertification A Threat To Africa\u2019s Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By Africa Renewal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arable land is\nvital for Africa, both as a key asset for farmers and, together with\nvegetation, to help store carbon that would otherwise be emitted into the\natmosphere and contribute to climate change. The UN Food and Agriculture\nOrganization (FAO) estimates that by 2030 Africa will lose two-thirds of its\narable land if the march of desertification \u2014 the spread of arid, desert-like\nareas of land \u2014 is not stopped. As global leaders met in Rio de Janeiro,\nBrazil, to hammer out fresh commitments on green growth, desertification was\nrecognized as a threat to sustainable development. Two decades ago, the first\n\u201cEarth Summit\u201d in Rio gave birth to three conventions, including the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unccd.int\/en\/Pages\/default.aspx\">UN Convention to Combat Desertification<\/a>&nbsp;(UNCCD). Luc\nGnacadja, the executive secretary of the UNCCD, gave this exclusive interview\nto&nbsp;<em>Africa Renewal<\/em>\u2019s Busani Bafana on the sidelines of the Rio+20\nSummit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 years on, has the world delivered on the UNCCD?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, and no. Yes, because when you look at the convention\nthere are a number of requirements and commitments. Developing country\ncommitments were to establish action programmes to address desertification,\navoiding and restoring degraded lands and mainstreaming this into national\npoverty alleviation and development. Developed country parties were to provide\nfinancial support and technology transfer for certain country parties to\nimplement those national programmes. Most of the developing country parties\naffected by desertification have established their national action plan, so\nthat aspect of the commitment has been made. But the failure is that plans will\nnot go to the fields and roll back desertification, it takes implementation.\nUnfortunately developing countries in Africa, for instance, have not succeeded\nin reflecting desertification in their plans for poverty eradiation, food\nsecurity or development. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/africarenewal\/web-features\/desertification-threat-africa%E2%80%99s-development\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Africa Renewal Arable land is vital for Africa, both as a key asset for farmers and, together with vegetation, to help store carbon that would otherwise be emitted into&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5607,"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-5606","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\/5606","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=5606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}