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World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, 17 June

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Aerial view over the Lake Chad region that clearly shows symptoms of desertification
Aerial view over the Lake Chad region that clearly shows symptoms of desertification. UNDP Chad/ Jean Damascene Hakuzimana.

Resources

Related links

  • Convention to Combat Desertification
  • FAO Soil degradation and Action against desertification
  • Relief web 
  • DESA Desertification
  • Goal 15
  • UNDP-Global Policy Centre on Resilient Ecosystems and Desertification
  • United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Related Observances and conferences

  • United Nations Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification (2010-2020)
  • UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030)
  • International Day of Forests (21 March)
  • International Day of Biodiversity (22 May)
  • Decade of Family Farming (2019-2028)
  • International Year of Soil (2015)

Documents and publications

  • Drought in numbers 2022
  • Convention to Combat Desertification
  • Agenda 21 - UN Conference on Environment and Development
  • Resolution 95 (A/RES/49/115) - Observance of World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
  • UNCCD library
  • IFAD: Tackling land degradation and desertification
  • FAO Key publications about soil
  • UNCCD and the COVID-19 crisis: landbased solutions for healthy people and a sustainable planet
  • A rapid review of drought risk mitigation measures
  • Drought and water scarcity
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