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Land degradation and desertification are among the biggest environmental challenges of our time. In the last 40 years, we lost nearly a third of the world’s arable farmland due to erosion, just as the number of people to be fed from it almost doubled.
Drylands occupy more than 40% of the world’s land area and are home to some two billion people. This includes a disproportionate number of the world’s poorest people, who live in degraded and severely degraded landscapes.
Located in the arid and semi-arid areas of West Africa, the Sahel has undergone profound changes over the past 50 years.
Land degradation affects a significant portion of the Earth’s ice-free land area and several countries have embraced the challenge of restoring large parts of their degraded lands.
Inadequate land management and agricultural activities have largely resulted in land degradation in Burkina Faso.
The World Food Programme (WFP) supports communities to mitigate the impact of and build resilience to natural and human-made shocks and stressors that contribute to food insecurity and destabilize people’s livelihoods.
This paper examines the evidence for land degradation in Burkina Faso, and argues that local farming practices are not as unsustainable and environmentally destructive as many reports suggest.Main findings of the study include:there is little evidence of widespread degradation of crop and fallow
This paper explores and evaluates the impact of a new form of large-scale agriculture which is becoming an increasing phenomenon in southern Burkina Faso.
Le projet Action contre la désertification (ACD) appuie huit pays (le Burkina Faso, l’Éthiopie, Fidji, la Gambie, Haïti, le Niger, le Nigéria et le Sénégal) du Groupe des États d’Afrique, des Caraïbes et du Pacifique (ACP) dans la gestion durable et la restauration de leurs terres dégradées.
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