News Headline
Preventing Desertification Better Than Cure
Source
Inter Press Service News Agency
Publication Date
2011-10-17
CHANGWON, Oct 16, 2011 (IPS) - "Humanity is the only desert-making species and we’ve been degrading usable land at one percent per year," says Luc Gnacadja, executive secretary of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).