The Algerian experience of struggle against desertification
The executive secretary of the UN Convention on Action against Desertification (UNCCD), Luc Gnacadja, called Tuesday in Algiers the world to take advantage of the Algerian experience in the fight against desertification and land degradation, APS reports.
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"Algeria is a model country in integrating the fight against desertification and land degradation in an overall development policy, a model that the UNCCD encourages countries to adopt the world."
Mr Gnacadja was speaking during a press conference on the sidelines of the regional workshop on information land degradation, desertification and drought.
The Algerian Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Rachid Benaissa, said that Algeria had made "very soon"aware of this phenomenon, explaining that "it leads the struggle at the national level since its independence in 1962 through plans and specific programs designed to contain the process of desertification and to ward off threats to the future of local people and their stability ".
For him, Algeria has acquired, in fifty years, an experience "certain rich and diverse." The reforestation sites launched during the 1960s, the Green Dam and the National Reforestation Plan are, as such experiences "full of information and evidence". "The efforts made by Algeria in this area stem from a rich approach to all these experiences and these lessons and are part of a more ambitious, that of Agriculture and Rural Renewal," at he added.
"This policy is based on our deep and abiding conviction that development can only be sustainable if it affects all regions,without any exclusion or marginalization, and there are no territories with no future but only territories without projects.
Similarly we consider that the rural is synonymous with the future potential and to discover and develop, "he said.
The minister stressed that the fight against desertification and land degradation, both at the national and continental level,can not succeed without mobilization "effective and efficient" of the populations concerned.
He recalled that Algeria was working in this direction, through institutions and specialized international instruments, and "actively contributing to the achievement of objectives at both global and regional levels".
The Algerian experience in desertification was presented at the “First African week of drylands” in June 2011.
The meeting which aimed to harmonize the different strategies against desertification conducted by participating countries was marked by the intervention of representatives of the Algerian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
Algeria was chosen to host the sub-regional workshop for exchanging and sharing knowledge on strategies for resource mobilization owing mainly to "its long experience in combating desertification," according to a UNCCD representative in M'sila on )said in M'sila on 5 April 2012.during the the Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCDde based in Algiers which fights against desertification.y .
Algeria is the home of the Foundation Deserts du Mon5 April 2012.
Desertification is the persistent degradation of dryland ecosystems by human activities and climatic variations. Because of its toll on human well-being and on the environment, it ranks among the greatest development challenges of our times.
In an interview with Xinhua on 24 April Luc Gnacadja said, tha the international community should endorse bold moves at the upcoming Rio+20 conference to achieve zero net land degradation. "I really look forward to seeing the international community commit itself to a land degradation neutral world," Gnacadja said.
Twenty years after the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, where the UNCCD was born, "the time has come for us to set up targets that are measurable and achievable to overcome desertification and land degradation," he said.
Established in 1994, UNCCD is the first and only legally binding international agreement linking environment and development to sustainable land management.
The Convention's 194 parties work together, through national action programs that incorporate long-term strategies supported by international cooperation and partnership arrangements, to improve the living conditions for people in drylands, to maintain and restore land and soil productivity, and to mitigate the effects of drought.
Desertification is the persistent degradation of dryland ecosystems by human activities and climatic variations. Because of its toll on human well-being and on the environment, it ranks among the greatest development challenges of our times.
Every year, a total of 75 billion tons of fertile soil is lost forever. Every year, due to land degradation and drought , about 12 million hectares of productive land is lost, according to Mr Gnacadja.
However, the implications of desertification on food, water and energy security and even human security are not that known,Gnacadja said.
He stressed three keywords in the battle against land degradation in related policymaking and actions for the 21st century, namely efficiency, resilience and inclusiveness.
In the run-up to Rio+20, Gnacadja said the time had come for the international community to commit itself to a land degradation neutral world by setting sustainable development goals on land use, with targets towards achieving zero net land degradation.
Known as Rio+20, the United Nation's Conference on Sustainable Development will take place in Brazil on June 20-22 to secure renewed political commitment to a green economy that fosters sustainable development.
Arab states could be headed towards a future war over water if they do not act quickly to tackle shortages, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has warned today, the BBC reports.
At a conference in Baghdad, he urged countries to work together in order to prevent conflict in the arid region.
Issues include desertification, poor water management, and the need for most Arab countries to rely on the goodwill of upstream states for river water. Water disputes have contributed to tensions between rivals including Israel and the Palestinians, Jprdan and Syria and Iraq as well as Egypt and regional tensions over the waters from the Nile river.
Mr Gnacadja was speaking during a press conference on the sidelines of the regional workshop on information land degradation, desertification and drought.
The Algerian Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Mr. Rachid Benaissa, said that Algeria had made "very soon"aware of this phenomenon, explaining that "it leads the struggle at the national level since its independence in 1962 through plans and specific programs designed to contain the process of desertification and to ward off threats to the future of local people and their stability ".
For him, Algeria has acquired, in fifty years, an experience "certain rich and diverse." The reforestation sites launched during the 1960s, the Green Dam and the National Reforestation Plan are, as such experiences "full of information and evidence". "The efforts made by Algeria in this area stem from a rich approach to all these experiences and these lessons and are part of a more ambitious, that of Agriculture and Rural Renewal," at he added.
"This policy is based on our deep and abiding conviction that development can only be sustainable if it affects all regions,without any exclusion or marginalization, and there are no territories with no future but only territories without projects.
Similarly we consider that the rural is synonymous with the future potential and to discover and develop, "he said.
The minister stressed that the fight against desertification and land degradation, both at the national and continental level,can not succeed without mobilization "effective and efficient" of the populations concerned.
He recalled that Algeria was working in this direction, through institutions and specialized international instruments, and "actively contributing to the achievement of objectives at both global and regional levels".
The Algerian experience in desertification was presented at the “First African week of drylands” in June 2011.
The meeting which aimed to harmonize the different strategies against desertification conducted by participating countries was marked by the intervention of representatives of the Algerian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
Algeria was chosen to host the sub-regional workshop for exchanging and sharing knowledge on strategies for resource mobilization owing mainly to "its long experience in combating desertification," according to a UNCCD representative in M'sila on )said in M'sila on 5 April 2012.during the the Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCDde based in Algiers which fights against desertification.y .
Algeria is the home of the Foundation Deserts du Mon5 April 2012.
Desertification is the persistent degradation of dryland ecosystems by human activities and climatic variations. Because of its toll on human well-being and on the environment, it ranks among the greatest development challenges of our times.
In an interview with Xinhua on 24 April Luc Gnacadja said, tha the international community should endorse bold moves at the upcoming Rio+20 conference to achieve zero net land degradation. "I really look forward to seeing the international community commit itself to a land degradation neutral world," Gnacadja said.
Twenty years after the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, where the UNCCD was born, "the time has come for us to set up targets that are measurable and achievable to overcome desertification and land degradation," he said.
Established in 1994, UNCCD is the first and only legally binding international agreement linking environment and development to sustainable land management.
The Convention's 194 parties work together, through national action programs that incorporate long-term strategies supported by international cooperation and partnership arrangements, to improve the living conditions for people in drylands, to maintain and restore land and soil productivity, and to mitigate the effects of drought.
Desertification is the persistent degradation of dryland ecosystems by human activities and climatic variations. Because of its toll on human well-being and on the environment, it ranks among the greatest development challenges of our times.
Every year, a total of 75 billion tons of fertile soil is lost forever. Every year, due to land degradation and drought , about 12 million hectares of productive land is lost, according to Mr Gnacadja.
However, the implications of desertification on food, water and energy security and even human security are not that known,Gnacadja said.
He stressed three keywords in the battle against land degradation in related policymaking and actions for the 21st century, namely efficiency, resilience and inclusiveness.
In the run-up to Rio+20, Gnacadja said the time had come for the international community to commit itself to a land degradation neutral world by setting sustainable development goals on land use, with targets towards achieving zero net land degradation.
Known as Rio+20, the United Nation's Conference on Sustainable Development will take place in Brazil on June 20-22 to secure renewed political commitment to a green economy that fosters sustainable development.
Arab states could be headed towards a future war over water if they do not act quickly to tackle shortages, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has warned today, the BBC reports.
At a conference in Baghdad, he urged countries to work together in order to prevent conflict in the arid region.
Issues include desertification, poor water management, and the need for most Arab countries to rely on the goodwill of upstream states for river water. Water disputes have contributed to tensions between rivals including Israel and the Palestinians, Jprdan and Syria and Iraq as well as Egypt and regional tensions over the waters from the Nile river.
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