IPS Inter Press Service - Preventable Deseases Africa
IPS, civil society's leading news agency, is an independent voice from the South and for development, delving into globalisation for the stories underneath.
IPS, civil society's leading news agency, is an independent voice from the South and for development, delving into globalisation for the stories underneath.
IPS, civil society's leading news agency, is an independent voice from the South and for development, delving into globalisation for the stories underneath.
IPS, civil society's leading news agency, is an independent voice from the South and for development, delving into globalisation for the stories underneath.
IPS, civil society's leading news agency, is an independent voice from the South and for development, delving into globalisation for the stories underneath.
IPS, civil society's leading news agency, is an independent voice from the South and for development, delving into globalisation for the stories underneath.
Desertification could force some 60 million to migrate from sub-Saharan Africa to Northern Africa and Europe by 2020. More than 250 million people worldwide directly suffer the effects of desertification, and another 1.2 billion in 110 countries are threatened by this degradation of otherwise arable and habitable land -- caused by climate change and by unsustainable land-use practices like overgrazing, deforestation and burning. IPS offers insights into a phenomenon that is undermining development in Africa and around the world, and which requires the immediate attention of the international community and local peoples alike.
"The missing rungs are in the hands of a happy few who use them mainly for attack and self-defence."
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