World Day to Combat Desertification
The demand for life’s essentials will rise significantly in the next 20 years. About 50% more food will be needed, 40% more energy and 35% more water. How will these demands to be met and with what resources? Past trends show that land, the foundation of these goods and services, is not only being destroyed, but is not on the radar screen of policy-makers because there is no political will to get something done. How serious is the problem? By 1992, estimates showed that only 3% of the Earth was fertile land. But every year, 75 billion tons of fertile soil is getting lost for good, slowly...
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