land degradation

The National Agency for Great Green Wall (NAGGW) has said it is committed to improving the livelihood of over 20 million Nigerians by 2030, as the agency moves to  rehabilitate degraded land to boost agricultural production in Nigeria.…

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations says 75% of the world’s land has been transformed mostly for agriculture, with 23% of the land being no longer productive. The FAO attributed this lack of…

Climate change, overuse and conversion for agriculture, cities and infrastructure mean that one fifth of the planet’s land area is degraded. This damage, which also drives drought and desertification, harms the livelihoods of almost half…

One expert says the biggest driver of land degradation in the continent from the agriculture perspective is “tillage”. Amidst concerns over the intensification of Africa’s ecosystem degradation driven by development activities of the…