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Last week, Samarkand in Uzbekistan hosted an important intergovernmental conference on how to halt the creeping spread of degraded land. The country was aptly chosen: only about 800 kilometres from ...

NAIROBI/DURBAN, April 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From South Africa, where unprecedented floods this month washed away farmland, to the excessive logging of Kenya's mountain forests, Africa is ...

Land degradation in the form of soil erosion, deforestation and crop nutrient mining are common in this area. These unsustainable land management practices are aggravated by periodic droughts and ...

The animal agriculture industry is the leading cause of most environmental degradation that is currently occurring. These detrimental effects happen as a result of overgrazing, habitat loss, ...

Livestock farming is destroying our planet. It is a major cause of land and water degradation, biodiversity loss, acid rain, coral reef degeneration, deforestation -- and of course, climate change.

If we do not transform food systems it will be impossible to sustainably use our land and natural resources. Around 40% of all habitable land is used to produce food. This has come at the expense of ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Soil erosion, the most common type of land degradation, ...