Tag Archives : desertification

Water scarcity has ceased to be a desertification issue in dry regions. The phenomena of climate change and global warming have now come into consideration. Arching over these serious problems are the twin realities of food shortage and hunger. All these are connected to the most basic problem of water shortage. Scott James in blue living ideas reports [...]

Organized by the Dryland Science for Development (DSD) Consortium, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) holds a global scientific conference with the main topic of desertification-climate change nexus. The global conference, entitled “Understanding Desertification and Land Degradation Trends,” is being held in connection [...]

Water scarcity, pollution, and sanitation were the main talking points in the Ministerial-level talks among more than 100 ministers from 190 participating countries meeting at the recent World Water Forum in Istanbul. The main premise is that water has become one of the world’s worsening problems. The content of heated debates is whether water should [...]

In recent years, the global cotton industry has been mired in yet another controversy, not similar to cotton trade manipulations by the leading cotton exporters. The cotton industries of some countries have fallen under deep scrutiny and controversy for using child labor and posing a health threat to cotton farmers due to their exposure to pesticides. [...]