Healthy soil is vital for water and food supply. But much fertile land is heavily degraded and turning to desert. Over the ...

The COP28 UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems, and Climate Action, endorsed by 160 nations to ...

Just over 75 percent of the world's land has been left "permanently drier" over the previous three decades, a UN-backed report coinciding with COP16 talks on desertification in Saudi Arabia said on ...

Ibrahim Thiaw, executive secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), addresses the closing ...

The global economy could lose $23 trillion by 2050 due to land degradation, though halting this trend would cost $4.6 ...

The UN report comes as world leaders meet in Saudi Arabia for the agency's COP16 conference on land desertification.

In his opening remarks, Anthony Nyong, the African Development Bank’s Director of Climate Change and Green Growth, stressed ...

Just over 75 percent of the world's land has been left "permanently drier" over the previous three decades, a UN-backed report coinciding with COP16 talks on desertification in Saudi Arabia said ...

While delegates at UNCCD COP16 hope that this could be the convention’s Paris moment, this hedges on the parties’ seriousness ...

Saudi Arabia is hosting the United Nations Cop16 conference on desertification this week, with the world's top oil exporter ...