Food security is a critical part of the Sustainable Development Goals and government policies in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The expression “food security” was introduced in 1974 following famines in the Sahel and Darfur (Gerlach,2015), and was initially focused on the production and availability ...
Water is the compound of hydrogen and oxygen. It is one of the most abundant materials on the surface of planet Earth and definitely the most common liquid, covering approximately 71% of the Earth's surface. Water also occurs in its solid form, ice, ...
ain other parts of the world, especially in Africa, there is a problem with desertification. Climate change and over-farming are causing farmland to turn into desert. In means that people cannot grow enough food. 在世界的其他地区,特别是在非洲,有一个问题以沙漠化。 气候变化和在种田造成农田把变...
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The resolutions that are put on the UNGA agenda for approval are prepared in six committees corresponding to six broad policy areas: disarmament and international security (C1, DISEC); economic, development and financial issues including environmental issues such as climate change or desertification (...
David Nye and Sarah Elkind have moreover coined the term “anti-landscape” to refer to spaces that have become uninhabitable over time due to technological interventions such as extracting and refining coal, copper, or uranium, inducing desertification, erosion, deforestation, pollution, or contaminat...
Perfectly adapted to the warm climate and arid soil, cork oak forests protect against erosion and resulting desertification. They are barrier against fire, due to the weak combustion of cork and undertake an important role in the regulation of the hydrological cycle. They also provide an essential...
Desertification says in the foreword to the report. “We need to steer toward the solutions rather than continuing with destructive actions, believing that marginal change can heal systemic failure.” He also said in atweetthat land restoration is one solution to the problem that...
David Nye and Sarah Elkind have moreover coined the term “anti-landscape” to refer to spaces that have become uninhabitable over time due to technological interventions such as extracting and refining coal, copper, or uranium, inducing desertification, erosion, deforestation, pollution, or contaminat...