By Kanya D’Almeida
The drylands are home to one of every three people on earth. / Credit:UN Photo/Martine Perret
The drylands are home to one of every three people on earth.
Credit:UN Photo/Martine Perret
UNITED NATIONS,(IPS) – Few are aware that close to one billion people in over 100 different countries are suffering from or severely threatened by intense desertification. Yet awareness is crucial, for it is human behaviour that has led to the proliferation of hyper- arid, uncultivable drylands over the past few decades.
As vast amounts of land are increasingly lost to
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