Sentences with phrase «with desertification»

We wish to conclude by urging government to, as a matter of urgency stop all these companies from further logging of the rosewood trees in northern Ghana that is already grabbling with desertification and other climate change impacts.

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Because of the links between drought, land degradation, desertification and climate change, withdrawal from the Desertification Convention comes with potentially sigdesertification and climate change, withdrawal from the Desertification Convention comes with potentially sigDesertification Convention comes with potentially significant costs.

With intensive agriculture linked to deforestation and desertification, as well a general loss of genetic biodiversity, how can declines in ecosystem be reversed and biodiversity encouraged?

In regions with continental climate, soils are subject to desiccation, meaning climate change will aggravate problems of salinity, erosion, and desertification.

Organic agriculture counteracts resource depletion (soil, water, energy, nutrients), contributes positively to the problems associated with climate change and desertification and can help to maintain and enhance biodiversity at a global scale.

The then Agriculture Minister, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina said Fulani herdsmen were facing a lot of pressure with the increase in population and desertification, adding that the increase in criminality had made livestock production a risky business.

But as anxiety mounts - even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow and extremist groups worldwide exploit the desperation of people losing livelihoods to desertification - many are finding new routes to water security with key implications for food access, economic resilience, and climate change.

In northwest Africa, where what Werz has called an «arc of tension» runs through Nigeria, Niger, Algeria and Morocco, he said the projected massive population growth combined with small - onset changes brought about by climate change — like sea - level rise along the Niger Delta, the loss of hundreds of villages through desertification and the virtual disappearance of Lake Chad — is bad enough.

We offer preliminary estimates of the lands unlikely to support new waves of climate refugees due to the residues of war, exhausted natural resources, declining net primary productivity, desertification, urban sprawl, land concentration, «paving the planet» with roads and greenhouse gas storage zones offsetting permafrost melt,» Geisler said.

«It's not a new phenomenon,» Jaffe says, but it has gotten worse with deforestation and desertification caused by poorly managed agriculture.

«Understanding the long - term adaptation of cells and organisms to high salinity is of great importance in a world with increasing desertification and salinity,» the team wrote.

In 2006, researchers used radiocarbon - dated material from 150 archaeological sites in the eastern Sahara to map a change in settlement patterns that coincided with increased desertification of the region.

The knowledge gained here is shared with the world, where the rapid expansion of desert, called desertification, affects 1 billion people in 100 countries.

By the end of the 13th meeting of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Ordos, China, 113 countries had agreed to specify concrete targets with clear indicators, to rehabilitate more land and reverse degradation, which currently affects over a third of the world's land resources.

A future that avoids, minimizes, and reverses desertification / land degradation and mitigates the effects of drought in affected areas at all levels... to achieve a land degradation - neutral world consistent with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

However, Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought (DLDD) as well as climate change can negatively affect the provision of these ecosystem services with potentially severe implications for food security, livelihoods, and human well - being.

With that in mind, African leaders and the people of the region have been taking a stand to counter land degradation and desertification.

The World Day to Combat Desertification (WDCD) will be celebrated worldwide on 17 June with the focus on sustainable land management as a way to regenerate economies, create jobs and revitalize communities.

Ms. Barbut said the decision puts the Desertification Convention on par with the Climate Change and Biodiversity Conventions, both of which have their own targets.

Desertification also contributes to climate change, with land degradation and related loss of vegetation resulting in increased emissions and reduced carbon sink.

A the press - conference in honor of the World Day to Combat Desertification, the Head of Biological and Landscape Diversity of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Belarus Ms. Natalia Minchenko noted that the experience of Belarus with rewetting as a one of the elements of ecological rehabilitation of degraded peatlands is being picked up by other countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

Land degradation in the drylands, commonly known as desertification, begins with the clearing of vegetation, which means «forests are the first step towards healing the drylands and protecting them from desertification and drought,» as Mr. Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (Udesertification, begins with the clearing of vegetation, which means «forests are the first step towards healing the drylands and protecting them from desertification and drought,» as Mr. Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (Udesertification and drought,» as Mr. Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UDesertification (UNCCD) observes.

The accredited UNCCD CSO of Eastern India in Baripada of Odisha has celebrated the World Day carrying out a planting and fencing program involving the local community and then continued with a workshop and a series of talks regarding land degradation and desertification.

A large variety of youth - centric awareness - raising and nature education activities with the focus on challenges posed by desertification, land degradation and drought were showcased during the event.

Desertification is closely linked with global climate change and loss of biodiversity.

Within the project development framework of the LDN Fund, which is co-developed by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and Mirova, an affiliate of Natixis Investment Managers dedicated to responsible investing, with the support of the European Investment Bank (EIB), Mirova has concluded a partnership agreement with the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Kingdom of Morocco related to the AAA Initiative.

The women entrepreneurs of wPOWER, as with the women tree - planters of the GBM networks and millions of others like them, know all too well the consequences of very non-metaphorical forest fires: drought, desertification, hunger, and water and fuel - wood scarcity.

There, Stocke meets two tight - lipped beings named Teo and Lippti, who explain that forces of evil have interfered with the true course of history so that the continent's desertification will soon reach an unstoppable pace.

Originally released in 2011 towards the end of the Nintendo DS» life cycle, the time - hopping, desertification - preventing adventure of Stocke and Co. won favor with critics and hardcore fans but generally flew under most folks» radars.

The stage featured is a remixed version of Green Hill Zone that has been flooded with sand, a result of «the heavy desertification caused by Eggman's industries».

Elise Richman's small paintings pop with stalagmites of multicolored paint that suggest topographical island views or maps of desertification or population density.

It appears to me that the family of humanity is beginning to come face to face with a myriad of growing global challenges — air pollution, sea and land contamination, global warming, peak oil, diminishing global supplies of grain, overfishing, the dissipation of Earth's scarce resources, desertification, deforestation, urban sprawl and autoban congestion are examples — the sum of which could soon become unsustainable, given a finite planet with the relatively small size and make - up of Earth.

In several places, large numbers of trees and shrubs are cut to provide fuel with grave consequences that include soil erosion and desertification.

There's been a lot of talk lately about the food crisis, and particularly linking it to growing crops for biofuels (a highly inefficient process which seems to drive prices up, particularly in US policy), but Frances More Lappe argued in her books several years ago that there is, in fact, enough food on the planet to feed us all, but localized political troubles (grain rotting in Haitian ports), increasing desertification, food waste, and problems with global supply chains are better explanations for why so many go hungry.

Mir is said to be working with additional researchers to improve his design to make it smaller, so «swarms» of the Tumbleweeds could be deployed across sand dunes to help create 3D maps of how the wind moves across the dunes, which may lead to ideas on possible solutions for slowing down or reversing the desertification process.

The values of commitment, persistence and patience, to stay with it until the goal is realized... The love for the land and desire to protect it from desertification and other destructive processes»..........

«We offer preliminary estimates of the lands unlikely to support new waves of climate refugees due to the residues of war, exhausted natural resources, declining net primary productivity, desertification, urban sprawl, land concentration, «paving the planet» with roads, and greenhouse gas storage zones offsetting permafrost melt.»

Continued greenhouse gas emissions are likely to be associated with changes in rainfall patterns, desertification, more frequent storms and rises in sea level, all of which have implications for human movement.

Unfortunately, this expansion of the winter area will be accompanied by a drastic reduction of suitable summer climate space: with the projected desertification of the Interior West, only 13 % of the current summer area will be suitable by 2080.

Other ecological crises of great importance are not, however, dealt with here: species extinction (and loss of biological diversity in general), deforestation, desertification, soil degradation, acid rain, the proliferation of toxic wastes (including in living tissues), market - regulated biotechnology, urban congestion, population growth, and animal rights.

This brochure stresses that the Rio Conventions - the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)- acknowledge the important contribution of forests to the achievement of their respective objectives and provides a snapshot of the synergies and linkages with respect to forests between combating climate change and desertification and the conservation and sustainable use oDesertification (UNCCD) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)- acknowledge the important contribution of forests to the achievement of their respective objectives and provides a snapshot of the synergies and linkages with respect to forests between combating climate change and desertification and the conservation and sustainable use odesertification and the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.

E.g., human - caused albedo variations from desertification, and to some extent tropical deforestation, were connected with past global climate changes by Sagan et al. (1979); a pioneering model confirming «the long - held idea that the surface vegetation... is an important factor in the Earth's climate» was Shukla and Mintz (1982); Amazon Basin: Salati and Vose (1984); more recently, see Kutzbach et al. (1996).

On the other side of the world, in Niger, farmers faced with severe drought and desertification in the 1980s began leaving some emerging acacia tree seedlings in their fields as they prepared the land for crops.

I think the appeal in engaging with SebastianH is that he actually believes that CO2 functions like a «blanket» in the atmosphere and thus warms the oceans, melts glaciers at their base, raises sea levels to catastrophic heights, acidifies the oceans, kills off 30,000 species per year, browns the Earth (desertification), etc., and that he is so convinced of the «rightness» of his beliefs that he thinks anyone who disagrees must be insane, stupid, mathematically challenged, a conspiracy theorist, etc..

Air pollution, ozone depletion, acid precipitation, global warming, desertification, smog production, and deforestation are but a few of the human impacts on the climate system that arise from the alteration of the mass and energy exchange with the atmosphere.

However, at the same time, she shared some good news: the UNCCD, in collaboration with Mirova, the governments of France, Luxembourg, Norway, and the Rockefeller Foundation, has launched a special fund for restoring degraded land and fighting desertification.

combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought in countries experiencing serious drought through effective action at all levels with a view to achieve sustainable development in affected areas.

The loss of productive land to desertification, along with the depletion of aquifers and the diversion of irrigation water to cities and industry, makes it increasingly difficult to expand food production.

Slow onset events are mentioned in the Cancun Agreements with a footnote saying that these are events «including sea level rise, increasing temperatures, glacial retreat and related impacts, salinization, land and forest degradation, loss of biodiversity, and desertification».

Despite fears they would be unable to deal with the complex environmental problems facing Pakistan — such as changing monsoon patterns, melting glaciers, seasonal flooding, rising sea levels and desertification — the devolution went ahead.