Strategies for Desertification Control

Strategies for Desertification Control

The earth’s soil is disappearing at an alarming rate. Indeed, a thin layer of soil may take centuries to develop but can be washed away in a few seasons. Desertification is a major world concern since of the link between the decline in food production and dry land degradation. Desertification has been linked to scenarios poverty and drought that has resulted to instances of insecurity and misery across drylands of Asia and Africa. Reports by United Nation Secretariat for Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), over 250 million of people across the world have already been harmed by desertification and other 750 million people at high risk. More than 30 percent of drylands across the world are found in susceptible drylands…