Overcoming desertification is crucial
the importance of productive land for securing food and generating local employment thereby contributing to sustainable land management.
Losing productive land is driving people to make risky life choices.
In rural areas, where people depend on scarce productive land resources, land degradation is a driver of migration.
Africa is particularly susceptible because more than 90% of the economy depends on a climate-sensitive natural resource base, such as rain-fed, subsistence agriculture. Unless we change the way in which we manage our land, in the next 30 years we may leave a billion or more vulnerable poor people with little choice