🌾Today is #DesertificationAndDroughtDay🌻
#DYK Gender issues are linked to land degradation through unequal access to resources, decision-making power & vulnerability to #ClimateChange?
Let's support land rights for women and girls around the world.🌎🌍🌏
#HerLand
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Drought is one of the striking consequences of #ClimateChange.🌡🌎
🌾Droughts can lead habitat loss, migration of local species & spread of invasive alien species and thus loss of #biodiversity.🦎
Protecting land helps to protect life.
📷 @un
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By 2050, 90% of the world’s land is projected to be significantly altered.🌍
—@IPBES #GlobalAssessment
Land degradation is a major contributor to #biodiversity loss, putting pressure on the landscape, its #ecosystems and our ability to produce #food.🌾🫑
📷@unccd
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Drought is among the most severe disasters, with devastating effects on people, habitats and the #biodiversity upon which we all depend. 🏜🌾🪲
Protecting land #ForNature and a healthier world for all.🌎🌍🌏
📷@IFAD
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#DYK 1 teaspoon of healthy soil can contain more microorganisms than there are people on earth? 🥄🌎
Avoiding, reducing and reversing #LandDegradation is an urgent priority to protect all life on Earth.
@IPBES #LandDegradation & Restoration Report:
📙ipbes.net/assessment-reports…
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Land degradation negatively affects the cultural identity of many communities...but how?🌾
👇Poster by @besnet_undp based on the @IPBES #LandDegradation & Restoration Report:
📙ipbes.net/assessment-reports…
More from BES-Net:
besnet.world/back-to-our-roo…
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📖@IPBES #GlobalAssessment's pathways to produce & consume #food sustainably:
🚜Agricultural practices
🧬Use of genetic resources
🐸#Biodiversity-friendly management
🌲Areas of natural habitat
🍅Food market transparency
⚖️Equity in food distribution
🗑️#Foodwaste
🍲Healthy diets
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What is a #OneHealth approach?⚕️🔍
📖The @ipbes #PandemicsReport describes it as a 'system of tackling key health issues by recognizing that the health of people, animals & the environment are often inextricably linked.'
ipbes.net/pandemics
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#DYK around one million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction, many within decades? - @IPBES #GlobalAssessment 🌍🌿
📚 Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services | IPBES secretariat
🖼️ via @WorldBank
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Changing consumption can help limit #BiodiversityLoss & #ClimateChange
This includes reducing loss & waste♻️& shifting diets, esp. in rich countries, to more #PlantBased options🥣
BiodiversityClimateScience Report from @ipbes @ipcc_ch co-sponsored w/shop
ipbes.net/biodiversity-clima…
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