Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification (
UNCCD), met with reporters to discuss failures in the current global system to combat drought and respond adequately to global environmental challenges.
The UNCCD works with the international community to stop policies that lead to desertification. Land dryness is a major economic, social and environmental problem of concern to many countries in all regions of the world and land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas has intensified in recent years especially in Africa.
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