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    Land belongs to the future - let’s climate proof it. This was the message of the 2014 World Day to Combat Desertification on June 17th. The document calls for protecting land from climate change to secure the future. It features a quote from a farmer in Burkina Faso who has successfully regenerated soil through traditional techniques to boost water retention despite less rain. His 38 acre forest now provides good harvests for the community.

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    ΚΑΡΤΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΗΝ ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΑ ΗΜΕΡΑ ΕΡΗΜΟΠΟΙΗΣΗΣ 2014

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    Land belongs to the future - let’s climate proof it. This was the message of the 2014 World Day to Combat Desertification on June 17th. The document calls for protecting land from climate change to secure the future. It features a quote from a farmer in Burkina Faso who has successfully regenerated soil through traditional techniques to boost water retention despite less rain. His 38 acre forest now provides good harvests for the community.

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    ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΑ ΗΜΕΡΑ ΕΡΗΜΟΠΟΙΗΣΗΣ 2014

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    Gerasimos Dendrinos
    Land belongs to the future - let’s climate proof it. This was the message of the 2014 World Day to Combat Desertification on June 17th. The document calls for protecting land from climate change to secure the future. It features a quote from a farmer in Burkina Faso who has successfully regenerated soil through traditional techniques to boost water retention despite less rain. His 38 acre forest now provides good harvests for the community.

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    Land belongs to the future - lets climate proof it

    17 June 2014 World Day to Combat Desertification


    17June 2014World Day to Comabt Desertification
    Land belongs to the future
    l e t s c l i m a t e p r o o f i t
    www.unccd.int
    www.unccd.int
    United Nations Convention
    to Combat Desertification
    www.unccd.int
    Land belongs to the future - lets climate proof it
    Photo: Andrea Borgarello, courtesy of World Bank/TerraAfrica
    We must not be enemies of nature, Y. Sawadogo taken from the film : The man who stopped the desert. www.1080films.co.uk
    We mus t not be enemi es of nat ur e
    Burkina Faso, North. Yacouba Sawadogo, a 60 year-old farmer
    has revived and reinvented traditional planting technique Zai
    to regenerate soil to contain more water from less rain.
    Today, the 38 acre of forest, once barren, provides good harvest
    to the community.
    La tierra pertenece al futuro
    protejmosla del cambio climtico
    La Terre est notre Aveni r
    prservons-ladeschangementsclimatiques

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