A United Nations body warns that a sixth of the world's food supplies are at risk from the deterioration of the world's rangelands, which include savannas, wetlands, and deserts, as well as grassland
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The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification warned that a sixth of the world’s food supplies were at risk from the deterioration of the world’s rangelands, which include savannas, wetlands, and deserts, as well as grassland. Barron Joseph Orr, UNCCD’s chief scientist, said that while the situation was bleak, there was a growing recognition that land restoration is part of the solution to“Emissions are the big issue for sure, but where do we want to put the carbon – where does it naturally belong? In our soils and in our vegetation, and if you keep undermining that, you undermine your solution,” he said.
The previous estimate of degradation was 25%, but UNCCD said it severely undercounted the damage done, with its new figure based on surveys from experts in more than 40 countries.
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