Areas affected by desertification and land degradation Desertification affects over 40% of total world land area

• United Nations Convention

• to Combat Desertification

• DLDD = Desertification Land Degradation & Drought

• Impact of Land degradation, desertification and drought on sustainable development of LLDCs

• NK, NYLO

Areas affected by desertification and land degradation

Desertification affects over 40% of total world land area

• Africa: Two thirds drylands, 73 % is moderately or severely affected
• Asia: One third is drylands, 71% affected, All Pacific islands states face some sort of land degradation
• North America proportion of drylands is 74%
• Five European Union countries are affected
• Latin America and the Caribbean: one fourth drylands, 75% affected
• 110 countries have drylands that are potentially at risk.
• Over 250 million people are directly affected and
• One billion under threat or at risk
• Global desertification costs: US$42 Billion;

Land is a finite resource

• DLDD: Some facts & figures

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• Sustainable

• Development

• Food Energy Water

• Forest

• Land

• DLDD

•  More than 50% of agricultural moderately to severely degraded  LD directly affects 1,5 billion people

• globally

•  75 billion tons of fertile soil disappear/year

•  12 million ha/Year lost due to drought and desertification

•  Six million km2 of drylands bear a legacy of desertification

•  Biodiversity: 27,000 species lost each year due to LD

•  “Improved management of the world’s land (including terrestrial carbon)

• represents 1/3rd of the overall global abatement potential in 2030

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• Main Causes of Desertification/land degradation

• Human activity :over cultivation, over grazing
• Deforestation
• Poor agricultural practices
• Drought and Climate Change

• Extreme

• Poverty

• Increased

• emissions of GHG

• Deforestation

• Food insecurity

• & Hunger

• Instability &

• Crises

• Increased to Drought & Water stress

• Biodiversity

• Loss

• Migrations

• DLDD has far-reaching impacts

• Drylands and Conflicts (Cf. “Common Wealth” by J. Sachs)

• Drought potential worldwide 2000-2098

• Source : University Corporation for Atmospheric Research - http://www2.ucar.edu/news/2904/climate-change-drought-may-threaten-much-globe-within-decades

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“Future We Want”

• Desertification, land degradation and drought
• 205. We recognize the economic and social significance of good land management,
• including soil, particularly its contribution to economic growth, biodiversity,
• sustainable agriculture and food security, eradicating poverty, the empowerment of
• women, addressing climate change and improving water availability. We stress that
• desertification, land degradation and drought are challenges of a global dimension
• and continue to pose serious challenges to the sustainable development of all
• countries, in particular developing countries. We also stress the particular challenges
• this poses for Africa, the least developed countries and the landlocked developing
• countries. In this regard, we express deep concern for the devastating consequences
• of cyclical drought and famine in Africa, in particular in the Horn of Africa and the
• Sahel region, and call for urgent action through short-, medium- and long-term
• measures at all levels.
• 206. We recognize the need for urgent action to reverse land degradation. In view of
• this, we will strive to achieve a land-degradation neutral world in the context of
• sustainable development. This should act to catalyse financial resources from a
• range of public and private sources.

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• Cost of Action Vs Inaction

• The Economics of Land Degradation

• Intervention Options for

• ZNLD

• Type 1 - High degradation trend

• Rehabilitate if economically

• or highly degraded lands: 25%

• feasible; mitigate where

• degrading trends are high

• Type 2 - Moderate degradation

• Introduce measure to mitigate

• trend in slightly or moderately

• degradation

• degraded land: 8%

• Type 3 - Stable land, slightly or

• Preventive interventions

• moderately degraded: 36%

• Type 4 - Improving lands: 10%

• Reinforcement of enabling

• conditions which foster SLM

• Source FAO SOLAW 2011

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• Poverty eradication

• Improving livelihood through pro-poor policies on

• Sustainable Land & Water Management

• Climate change

• Land is a win-win context for adaptation, mitigation &

• resilience building

• Avoided

• Deforestation

• Sust. Land Management & Restoration of degraded Lands as an alternative to

• Deforestation

• Food Security

• Preserving the resource base for food security - Land

• productivity/Soil fertility

• improvement at the core of all long term strategies

• Holistic Managemt

• Bio Energies

• Opportunities for Bio energies through biomass

• production

• Drought & Water stress

• Improving water availability &

• quality through sustainable

• land & water management

• Biodiversity

• Biodiversity conservation through improvement of land

• ecosystems’ conditions

• Avoiding Forced Migrations

• Changing the DAM paradigm “Degrade-Abandon-Migrate”

• Thank you

• "If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory…”.