{"id":6272,"date":"2017-09-18T04:15:46","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T04:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/nigeria-195-others-okay-strategy-to-contain-land-degradation\/"},"modified":"2017-09-18T04:15:46","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T04:15:46","slug":"nigeria-195-others-okay-strategy-to-contain-land-degradation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/nigeria-195-others-okay-strategy-to-contain-land-degradation\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria, 195 others okay strategy to contain land degradation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"attachment_416692\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" readability=\"33\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land.jpg?resize=1280%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/plugins\/ventra-lazy-load\/images\/1x1.trans.gif?ssl=1\" data-lazy-srcset=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land-640x360.jpg 640w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land-1062x598.jpg 1062w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land-320x180.jpg 320w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land-281x158.jpg 281w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land-562x316.jpg 562w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land-531x299.jpg 531w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land-487x274.jpg 487w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land-974x548.jpg 974w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land-600x338.jpg 600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"size-full wp-image-416692 lazyload\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><noscript><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land.jpg?resize=1280%2C720&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" class=\"size-full wp-image-416692 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land.jpg 1280w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land-640x360.jpg 640w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land-1062x598.jpg 1062w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land-320x180.jpg 320w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land-281x158.jpg 281w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land-562x316.jpg 562w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land-531x299.jpg 531w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land-487x274.jpg 487w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land-974x548.jpg 974w,https:\/\/guardian.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land-600x338.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Drought and desertification have been occurring persistently in the arid and semi arid zone of northern Nigeria with devastating social and economic impact<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nigeria and other countries have agreed on a new global roadmap to address land degradation at the 13th meeting of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification held in Ordos, China. <\/p>\n<p>The new UNCCD 2018-2030 Strategic Framework is the most comprehensive global commitment to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) in order to restore the productivity of vast swathes of degraded land, improve the livelihoods of more than 1.3 billion people, and to reduce the impacts of drought on vulnerable populations. <\/p>\n<p>To reaffirm the progress made at the summit, more than 80 Ministers from around the world issued the Ordos Declaration\u00a0urging countries to step up efforts on all fronts to tackle desertification \u2013 one of the planet\u2019s most pressing global challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The Conference also witnessed the birth of the first global private sector fund dedicated to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals. Known as the Land Degradation Neutrality Fund\u00a0(LDN Fund), it will be a source of transformative capital bringing together public and private investors to fund projects to restore degraded lands, which come with environment, economic and social benefits. <\/p>\n<p>With an initial target size of $300 million fund capital, the LDN Fund is co-promoted by Mirova, an affiliate of Natixis Global Asset Management that is dedicated to socially responsible investment, and the Global Mechanism of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). A separately-operated Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) will advise the Fund on the development of promising sustainable land use activities in order to build a strong portfolio of projects. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome battles took place, but you took bold measures for our Convention. We have a new strategic framework and a new reporting cycle. We have a Drought Initiative. We have taken fundamental decisions on gender, capacity-building, migration and sand and dust storms,\u201d said Ms Monique Barbut, UNCCD Executive Secretary. <\/p>\n<p>In an effort to slow land degradation and maintain productive soil, over 110 countries have joined a global campaign to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal target of reaching land degradation neutrality by 2030 a national target for action.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil, China, India, Nigeria, Russia and South Africa are among those that have committed to the national targets during the meeting in Ordos, a significant move for some of the world\u2019s largest and most populous nations that could mean regaining resources, job security and resilience to climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a new United Nations report warns that a third of the planet\u2019s land is now severely degraded thanks to a doubling in the consumption of natural resources over the past 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Some 15 billion trees and 24 billion tonnes of fertile soil are lost each year, according to the Global Land Outlook (GLO), launched by the secretariat of the UNCCD, at the meeting of States parties.<\/p>\n<p>The GLO takes a critical look at financial and socio-economic values of land, and its impact on the poor. It marks the first in-depth analysis of land functions viewed from multiple lenses such economic growth and global trade patterns, highlighting the inextricable links between land, these sectors, and the people that can work to save it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmallholder farmers, women and indigenous communities are the most vulnerable, given their reliance on land-based resources, compounded by their exclusion from wider infrastructure and economic development,\u201d stated a news release issued by UNCCD.<\/p>\n<p>Barbut said at the launch that land degradation and drought are global challenges and intimately linked to most, if not all aspects of human security and well-being, particularly food security, employment and migration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the ready supply of healthy and productive land dries up and the population grows, competition is intensifying, for land within countries and globally,\u201d she pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>More than 60 countries have established national land degradation baselines and set neutrality targets.Ms. Barbut noted that with the human population growing an extra 200,000 people daily, and 20 countries declaring drought emergencies over the last 18 months, there are unforeseeable challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were clearly not sufficiently prepared for these challenges,\u201d she said. \u201cHundreds of millions of people go to bed desperate, hungry and thirsty as a result. Under business-as-usual scenarios, there is no future relief.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a hre=\"http:\/\/guardian.ng\/property\/nigeria-195-others-okay-strategy-to-contain-land-degradation\/\"> Guardian <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drought and desertification have been occurring persistently in the arid and semi arid zone of northern &hellip; <a title=\"Nigeria, 195 others okay strategy to contain land degradation\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/nigeria-195-others-okay-strategy-to-contain-land-degradation\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nigeria, 195 others okay strategy to contain land degradation<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[519,1399,522,41,15296],"class_list":["post-6272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities-in-new-markets","tag-africa","tag-development","tag-nigeria","tag-property","tag-target"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Land.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4829,"url":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/nigeria-committed-to-paris-climate-change-accord\/","url_meta":{"origin":6272,"position":0},"title":"\u2018Nigeria committed to Paris climate change accord\u2019","author":"Amazing Property","date":"June 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"brahim Usman Jubril The Nigerian government has pledged to up hold the tenets of Paris agreement on climate change despite United States withdrawal.The Minister of State for Environment, Ibrahim Jibril who spoke on the up-coming World Environment Day, stated that 190 countries signed the agreement and if America decided to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Opportunities In New Markets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Opportunities In New Markets","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/category\/opportunities-in-new-markets\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Ibrahim-Usman-jibril-Minister-of-state-2-1062x598.jpg?fit=1062%2C598&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Ibrahim-Usman-jibril-Minister-of-state-2-1062x598.jpg?fit=1062%2C598&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Ibrahim-Usman-jibril-Minister-of-state-2-1062x598.jpg?fit=1062%2C598&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Ibrahim-Usman-jibril-Minister-of-state-2-1062x598.jpg?fit=1062%2C598&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Ibrahim-Usman-jibril-Minister-of-state-2-1062x598.jpg?fit=1062%2C598&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5006,"url":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/stakeholders-seek-policies-law-to-shore-up-forest-cover\/","url_meta":{"origin":6272,"position":1},"title":"Stakeholders seek policies, law to shore up forest cover","author":"Amazing Property","date":"June 19, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Nigeria had about 40 per cent of its total land area under forest cover at independence, but sadly today, the country is left with only 4 per cent \u2013 7per cent of its total land area under forest cover. 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