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Sub-Saharan Africa, notably East Africa, had the world's greatest proportion of undernourished people in 2017, with 28.8% and 31.4%, respectively. Long-term monitoring in North Africa (1978-2014) revealed the disappearance of significant perennial plant species owing to drought and desertification, such as Stipa tenacissima and Artemisia herba ...
Aoyate drought in the late 18th or early 19th century; 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia; 2008–2009 Kenya drought; 2011 East Africa drought; Sahel drought. 2010 Sahel famine; 2012 Sahel drought; Eastern Cape drought; 2017 Somali drought; 2018–2021 Southern African drought; 2020–2023 Horn of Africa drought; 2021 Somali drought; Food security ...
Image:BlankMap-Europe-v3.png – Europe without borders, showing some of North Africa and Western Asia. Image:BlankMap-Europe-v4.png – Version of Image:BlankMap-Europe-v3.png , but with borders shown
Desertification is a gradual process of increased soil aridity.Desertification has been defined in the text of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) as "land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid regions resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities."
Deforestation in Europe, 2020. Europe has lost more than half of its forests in the past 6,000 years. This has primarily been due to agricultural expansion and demand for wood fuel. [84] According to satellite data, the loss of biomass in EU's forests increased by 69% in the period from 2016 to 2018, compared with the period from 2011 to 2015 ...
Ninety percent of Africa's population requires wood to use as fuel for heating and cooking. As a result, forested areas are decreasing daily, as for example, in the region of equatorial evergreen forests. According to the United Nations Environment Programme, Africa's desertification rate is twice that of the world's. [4] Deforestation of ...
To adequately address the issue of water scarcity in Africa, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa emphasizes the need to invest in the development of Africa's potential water resources. This would improve food security and water security , and protect economic gains by effectively managing droughts, floods, and desertification .
A Sudanese farmer and his land. Drought and low rainfall has severely reduced the farmer's capacity to grow crops. The Middle East and North Africa currently faces extreme water scarcity, with twelve out of the 17 most water stressed countries in the world deriving from the region. [35]