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Combating Land Degradation – India Presiding COP 14 of UNCCD

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Aahana Ashi
Combating Land Degradation – India Presiding COP 14 of UNCCD

India houses 18 % of the world population and 15 per cent of livestock by only 2.4 per cent of global land area.

However, croplands available per person decreased three-fold to 0.12 hectares per person since 1960s.

Desertification is the degradation of land in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas (also known as drylands), where some of the most vulnerable ecosystems and peoples can be found.

It does not refer to the expansion of existing deserts.

Climate change induced events such as prolonged droughts, rising incidents of floods, landslides are reducing productive land area

Anthropogenic reasons: Economic (urbanization, industrial land use, deforestation, growing demand for food, fodder, fuel, excessive use of chemical fertilizers etc), social (land rights, uneven wealth distribution, demography, population pressure etc), political (policies, legislations etc)

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