No Fertile Land, No Food!
Posted by feww on July 2, 2008
Accelerated land degradation threatens food security of a quarter of the world’s population: FAO
Main entry: Land degradation threatens 1.5 billion people
A dried up river filled with sand winds its way across the desert in eastern Chad, June 5, 2008. REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly. Image may be subject to copyright. See FEWW Fair Use Notice!
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