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Mwesigwa Jaffar
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If we could say that it is an obligation for every home to plant an environment friendly tree🌲.
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Sarah Chabane
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On this year's Desertification and Drought Day on June 17, the UNCCD has decided to celebrate the immense contributions of women to global efforts in combating land degradation. 👩🌾🌱 Despite their critical role, women continue to face unequal access to and control over land in the majority of countries. The theme for this year, "Her Land. Her Rights.," aims to bring attention to the urgent need for gender equality in land management decisions and highlights the importance of empowering women to restore and protect our precious land resources. Some few facts: - One-third of the world's female population face a high or very high exposure to droughts - Over one third of the world's working women are employed in agrifood systems - Nearly half of the global agricultureal workforce is female yet lesss than 1 in 5 landholders worlwide are women - In over 100 countries, women are still denied their rights to inherit their husband's property due to discriminatory laws and practices. 😓 - Women globally spend 200 million hours each day collecting water The impact of desertification, land degradation, and drought on women and girls is disproportionate. They often bear the brunt of reduced agricultural yields and increased water scarcity, exacerbating the challenges they face. More than ever it is crucial to recognise that investing in women's equal access to land and associated assets is not only a matter of justice but also a direct investment in their future and the future of humanity. Because here are some hopeful facts: - Giving women the same access as men to agricultureal resources could reduce world hunger by 17%! Can you imagine? - Children whose mothers own land are up to 33% less likely to be underweight The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) higlights the urgency of these issues with this year's theme and raises awareness about the barriers women and girls face in decision-making on land issues, highlights their contributions to sustainable land management and broader SDGs, and mobilises global support for advancing land rights for women and girls worldwide. It is essential for governments to promote laws, policies, and practices that put an end to discrimination and secure women's rights to land and resources. Businesses also have a crucial role to play by prioritising women and girls in their investments, facilitating access to finance and technology, and ensuring equitable opportunities. Do you know any organisation or companies encouragins women's access to land? If so, send them climate love 💚 https://www.unccd.int/news-stories/press-releases/desertification-and-drought-day-2023-her-land-her-rights
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Women are our best advocates to fight climate change and they should not be degraded whatsoever.
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These people deserve rights to the lands
Sarah Chabane
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Waterless water park? Rainless forest? Welcome to Droughtland, the country with a severe dryness of land! This campaign by UNCCD wants to raise awareness about drought and the increasing pressure that many countries find themselves faced with when it comes to water scarcity. What if your country became Droughtland? 😶 The video comes with a new report showing that humanity is “at a crossroads” when it comes to managing drought and that accelerating mitigation must be done “urgently, using every tool we can,” Drought in Numbers, 2022, released at UNCCD’s COP15, calls for making a full global commitment to drought preparedness and resilience in all global regions a top priority. Here are some of the observations: Since 2000, the number and duration of droughts have risen 29% From 1970 to 2019, weather, climate and water hazards accounted for 50% of disasters and 45% of disaster-related deaths, mostly in developing countries Droughts represent 15% of natural disasters but took the largest human toll, 650,000 deaths from 1970-2019 From 1998 to 2017, droughts caused global economic losses of roughly USD 124 billion In 2022, more than 2.3 billion people face water stress; almost 160 million children are exposed to severe and prolonged drought A warming planet is a drying planet. And a drying planet means sickness and death. Read the report: https://www.unccd.int/news-stories/press-releases/world-crossroads-drought-management-29-generation-and-worsening-says-un Learn more about Droughtland: https://droughtland.com/ https://youtu.be/L7uYZTOq37A
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Scary prospect!
Sarah Chabane
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The fifteenth session of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) will take place in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, from 9 to 20 May 2022. Heads of State, ministers and delegates from 196 countries are expected to attend this major event on the future of land management, alongside private sector, civil society, women and youth leaders. The COP15 theme, ‘Land. Life. Legacy: From scarcity to prosperity', is a call to action to ensure land, which is the lifeline on this planet, continues to benefit present and future generations. A highly actual topic after the latest report by UNCCD showing that 40% of the land globally is degraded :https://app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/cfd82cad-c868-4c86-b04b-797fade0f5ac The Conference will focus on the restoration of one billion hectares of degraded land between now and 2030 and tackling the growing impacts of droughts, sand and dust storms, and wildfires. COP15 will also take action on key policies that can enable action on restoration, particularly land rights, gender equality and the role of youth in future land stewardship. Follow the conference of parties on the UNCCD channels and with the #LandLifeLegacy: https://www.unccd.int/cop15
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let's hope the outcomes of it will be good
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This is truly encouraging
Sarah Chabane
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Up to 40 % of the planet’s land is degraded, affecting directly half of humanity. A new report by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) sounds the alarm bell on the global state of the land. The way land resources – soil, water and biodiversity – are currently mismanaged and misused threatens the health and continued survival of many species on Earth, including our own. The Global Land Outlook 2 (GLO2) report is the most comprehensive consolidation of information on the topic ever assembled and it states something that most of us here are aware of: "Business as usual is not a viable pathway for our continued survival and prosperity.” “At no other point in modern history has humanity faced such an array of familiar and unfamiliar risks and hazards, interacting in a hyper-connected and rapidly changing world. We cannot afford to underestimate the scale and impact of these existential threats.” The report projects the planetary consequences of 3 scenarios through 2050: business as usual, restoration of 50 million square km of land, and restoration measures augmented by the conservation of natural areas important for specific ecosystem functions. And the "Business as usual" scenario makes you shiver: • Baseline: continuing current trends in land and natural resource degradation, while demands for food, feed, fibre, and bioenergy continue to rise. By 2050: 16 million square kilometres show continued land degradation (the size of South America) A persistent, long-term decline in vegetative productivity is observed with sub-Saharan Africa worst affected. An additional 69 gigatonnes of carbon is emitted from 2015 to 2050 due to land-use change and soil degradation This represents 17% of current annual greenhouse gas emissions. The report is not only doom and gloom as it projects 2 other more positive scenarios and also points decision-makers to hundreds of practical ways to affect local, national and regional land and ecosystem restoration. Let's make this decade the one of land restoration. Read the report: http://unccd.int/resources/global-land-outlook/overview Photo by Jervis Sundays, Kenya Red Cross Society
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Restoring land is a crucial part of solving the climate crisis.
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This is such an important issue--we need to restore our damaged and dead land to absorb carbon, reduce the climate change threat and grow food rather than clearing more forests and other vital habitats.
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This is a very important report, as well as a very worrisome one. We need to combat desertification if we want to reverse climate change.
Aude Boulord
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In Burkina Faso and Niger, farmers have transformed large swathes of arid land into productive agricultural space, which improve food security, reduce local conflict and restore the land. This is a very brave climate action considering the climate emergency that Africa is facing. Ethiopia has 2-4% of its natural forests left. Indigenous trees are either being overexploited, cut down as wood, or destroyed through wildfires and mining activities. Food security and stability is at stake and force populations to migrate. Mali’s agriculture capacity could fall by 30-40% because of climate change. In Senegal, fish stocks are already declining, dropping by 80% in 2017 alone. It is easy to destroy a land - but so brave to restore it. Very insightful article about the Great Green Wall initiative, a project led by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, and amazing to learn about these African changemakers: Tabi Joda of One Billion Trees for Africa, Ariana Day Yuen of Forested Foods and Josef Garvi of Sahara Sahel Foods. Have a look on this article to read more about what they are doing to save the environment. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/03/africa-regreening-food-security-climate/
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The Maathai family did Africa and the world a great service by starting this movement! 💚
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That's a great research and very insightful for what several organisations are doing in africa.
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This is the way to go!!! Good job to all the organizations involved!
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Let's all paint our mother nature green by planting more trees.