Global desertification in less than 30 years will lead to the fact that the productivity of agricultural land will decrease by 14%. This is stated in the “Global Land Survey 2”, released on April 27 by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Science reports..

UN review says that reversing global land degradation can mitigate three problems affecting the planet Earth in general and the existence of humankind, in particular: the effects of climate change, biodiversity loss and threats to food security.

“If current trends continue, the area of \u200b\u200bdegraded land will equal the area of \u200b\u200bSouth America, and the global productivity of crops and ecosystems will decrease by 14% by 2050,” the review says.. Sub-Saharan Africa will be hardest hit.

However, people have the power to reverse the menacing trends. Through measures such as planting trees and stabilizing erosion on 5 billion hectares, countries can slow down land degradation, increase crop yields and store more atmospheric carbon in soils. More than 100 countries have already pledged to restore 1 billion hectares by 2030.

Redirecting money spent on fossil fuels and farm subsidies could help finance recovery, report says. It is also said that restoration means not only the creation of protected wild lands, but also the adoption of active measures to support agriculture, in particular, this concerns the conservation and creation of areas for grazing livestock and plantations of tree crops..

Desertification is not only a problem in Africa or Central Asia. And not only the southern regions of Ukraine, if we talk about our country.

As ZN explained in a comment.

UA Deputy Director for Science of the Polessky Branch of the Research Institute of Forestry and Agroforestry Alexander Orlov, even in Zhytomyr Polissya, due to deforestation and changes in the hydrological regime, there are signs of desertification.

Decree of President Zelensky No. 228/2021 " The war with the Russian occupiers, unfortunately, poses completely different tasks..

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Nevertheless, the whole world was able to see that in order to achieve his imperial and business goals, Russian dictator Putin is ready to provoke an unprecedented increase in food prices and even starvation on a planetary scale..