Report shows youth, women, rural folk among hardest hit by land degradation

Patricia Kombo addressing the fifteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) at the Sofitel Hotel in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. She called on world leaders to involve youth in restoring land. [Robert Amalemba, Standard]

Poor rural communities, smallholder farmers, women, youth and indigenous people are worst hit by desertification, land degradation and drought, a report has indicated.

The Global Land Outlook 2 report shows humans transformed over 70 per cent of earth’s land from its natural state, causing unparalleled environmental degradation and contributing significantly to global warming.