If the world overshoots its climate targets, drought could cause dryland areas to expand by a quarter and encompass half the Earth’s land area, threatening lives and livelihoods.
Lars Laestadius, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences; Chris Reij, World Resources Institute y Dennis Garrity, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
Africa’s Great Green Wall must immediately speed up to meet the needs of people along the edges of the Sahara Desert.
Anja Gassner, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF); Philip Dobie, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) y Robert Nasi, Centre for International Forestry Research
A changing climate threatens the balance that communities in drylands have created.
Plants take carbon from the atmosphere as they grow, but it goes straight back when they die or are harvested. There is an important difference between carbon fluxes and actual carbon sequestration.
A new international report makes for bleak reading on the state of the world’s soils. It predicts that land degradation will displace up to 700 million people worldwide by mid-century.
Board Chair, Global EverGreening Alliance & Distinguished Senior Fellow, World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)