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China's anti-desertification drive restores 10 million hectares in five years, targets 6.7 million more by 2030China has restored over 10 million hectares of desertified land and nearly 2 million hectares of rocky desertification during the 14th Five...- Are the world’s freshwater sources vanishing before our eyes? Satellite images reveal an appalling global water crisisAcross the globe, our precious rivers, lakes, and reservoirs are diminishing at an alarming rate. Cutting-edge satellite imagery underscore...
- Restoring India’s land, securing India’s future through science and collective actionScientific innovations and integrated farming systems are combating land degradation and enhancing climate resilience, benefiting millions ...
- India restores 21.76 million hectares of deforested land, nears 84 per cent of Bonn Challenge targetIndia has made significant strides in land restoration. Between 2011 and 2020, over 21 million hectares of degraded land were restored, as ...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Restoring land is critical for India’s economy and food security: Osama Faqeeha, UNCCD’s COP16 advisorIndia’s agricultural crisis from land degradation needs swift action, stresses COP16 Presidency Advisor Osama Faqeeha.
- The world is quietly losing the land it needs to feed itselfIronically, one of the biggest challenges in the fight against land degradation is universal: We need to eat. About 40% of the planet’s lan...
- 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 ...
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