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BRICS+ agriculture beyond borders: Trade and resilience for a food-secure worldWith India’s leadership and BRICS+ cooperation, agriculture can become not only a source of food, but a foundation for resilience, prosperi...- Mining turns India's heat-shield hills to dustDizzyingly deep pits from large-scale mining scar India's ancient Aravalli mountains, threatening the future of a forested buffer that New ...
- China is using a bacteria to turn desert into fertile soil in just 10 monthsA groundbreaking technique from China transforms barren desert sand into fertile soil in just 10 months. Researchers use resilient cyanobac...
- Turn fog into water: How these women are using an incredible technique to survive in harsh, dry mountainsIn Morocco’s drought-hit Anti-Atlas Mountains, women are changing lives by turning fog into clean drinking water. Using giant mesh nets ins...
- Did Iran just destroy a US-Israel ‘weather weapon’, ending its drought? Viral conspiracy explainedPro-Iranian accounts on X claim Iran's weather has drastically improved after allegedly destroying a UAE cloud-seeding center, leading to h...
- India underlines efforts on land restoration, drought resilience at CoP16Union Minister Bhupender Yadav outlines India's efforts to address land degradation and desertification at CoP16 in Riyadh. He highlights I...
- Government plans 1,400km long 'Great Green Wall’ of IndiaThe project intends to counter climate change and desertification and is inspired by Africa's “Great Green Wall” from Dakar to Djibouti.
- Pakistan skips UN summit in India on restoring landDesignated seats of two Pakistani representatives remained vacant during the plenary on inaugural day.
- World comes together to slow down land degradation and desertificationThe fortnight long meeting will focus on practical measures to recover degraded land areas, critical gaps in land management and planning.
- India to restore 50 lakh hectare of degraded land by 2030: JavadekarIndia is hosting the Conference of Parties (COP) 14 of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) from September 2-13.
- India to host UN conference on combating desertification
- Government committed to saving land from getting degraded: Prakash Javadekar"India will lead by example and cooperate with the world. We will make all necessary contributions in the matter," Javadekar said.
- Desertification, land degradation, drought cost India 2.54% of its GDP: StudyDesertification, Land Degradation and Drought (DLDD) cost India about 2.54 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2014-15, a new s...
- Centre to help for scheme for beautification of AravalisUnion minister Harsh Vardhan on Saturday assured that the central government will extend all possible support to any scheme for enhancing t...
- Desertification in China reduced over past few years: ResearchBy the end of 2014, there was 1.72 million square kilometers of sandified land, about 17.93 per cent of the national territory, down 9,902 ...
- Government working to make India land degradation neutral by 2023For this to happen, all critical stakeholders— ministries of environment, agriculture, water resources and land resources— have to work tog...
- India to be 'land degradation neutral' by 2030: Prakash JavadekarJavadekar said that the objective of land degradation neutrality is to maintain or improve the condition of land resources via sustainable ...
- No protection to 63% of Western Ghats is perilousThe central government's in principle acceptance of the Kasturirangan report on Western Ghats, which will exclude 63% of the area from cons...
- Government to take steps to check land desertificationMinistry of agriculture is implementing various shemes and programmes for increasing the productivity of agricultural land, said Tariq Anwa...
- 'Desertification, climate change hinder development'United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon has warned that the twin scourges of desertification and climate change are impeding the achi...
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