Inter Press Service: Land degradation poses a threat to all life on Earth including humanity. To stop the enormous loss of life-giving land, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is pushing for a sustainable development goal of Zero Net Land Degradation (ZNLD) to be adopted at the upcoming Conference on Sustainable Development, known as Rio+20, in Brazil. "We should not dry up the future we want," UNCCD General Secretary, Luc Gnacadja, told a press briefing in Berlin last week, referring...
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