Desertification: UN experts prescribe global policy overhaul to avoid looming mass migrations
...nd climate change. While vegetative cover in most drylands is sparse, drylands represent more than 40% of global land area, providing immense opportunities for carbon sequestratio...Drylands are not the same as badlands
...ing about 41 percent of the globe's land surfaces, drylands are arid and semiarid areas with scarce and unpred...ant crops. Between 10 percent and 20 percent of drylands are undergoing some degree of severe land degradation that is likely to expand in the face of climat...Experts advise world policies to cope with causes, rising consequences of creeping desertification
...oods for dryland dwellers. And reducing poverty in drylands can have a strong impact on the efforts to curb th...ld population resides in drylands; 10 to 20% of drylands are already degraded, affecting nearly 200 million people; Pressure is increasing on dryland ecos...Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Many of 2 billion dryland dwellers at risk as land degrades
...e Caribbean." The report shows infant mortality in drylands in developing countries averages about 54 children...dustrial countries. Importantly, the rate in such drylands is twice as high as that of other, non-dryland regions in developing countries. The authors rank d...