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Join us this Saturday the 28th of May for an inpiring session about the role of agro-ecology in the trasformation to a future proof food and farming system on the African continent (and beyond).
Globally, the area that is suffering desertification and land degradation is ever expanding. Unsustainable and often large-scale agricultural practices, including the copious use of pesticides and fertilizers, are a major driver of land degradation, aprocess that is further exacerbated by climate change, causing more erratic rainfall patterns, longer periods of drought and unpredictable growing seasons. This is very problematic not only for the hundreds of millions of people who directly depend on land and water for their livelihoods, but also for life on earth as a whole. It is clear that this process must be stopped and reversed, better sooner than later. But how to go about it?
Van 2 tot 14 september dit jaar vond de veertiende VN-conferentie over de uitvoering van de VN-conventie over verwoestijning (UNCCD - United Nations Convention on to Combat Desertification) plaats in New Delhi, India. Onze collega Nathalie werkt al jaren samen met veel maatschappelijke organisaties om de UNCCD te laten zien dat lokale gemeenschappen op heel veel plekken werken aan duurzaam landgebruik en verwoestijning, en landdegradatie tegengaan, en dat landgebruikszekerheid daarbij onmisbaar is.
