Land models sprout as degradation threatens billions of livelihoods

PRESSIVIO NEWS BRIEF · WORLD

Pressivio’s World desk has added the source report “Land models sprout as degradation threatens billions of livelihoods” to its international monitoring stream.

Promising efforts to restore degraded land are now in the spotlight at a time when 40 per cent of the world’s land currently faces degradation and drought, threatening the livelihoods of over three billion people, the head of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) said Wednesday, announcing three winners of its World Restoration Flagships awards.