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UNDP launches anti-desertification drive

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    An initiative to strengthen the capacity of 31 African countries to design and implement local anti-desertification programmes has been launched by UNDP. The UN agency announced this at the Third Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, held 15-26 November in Recife, Brazil.

    The project will operate out of centres for the UN Office to Combat Desertification and Drought (UNSO) in Burkina Faso and Kenya. "The challenge is to improve the livelihoods of more than 1.7 billion people living in the world's dry lands today, as well as the prospects for future generations who will depend on the same fertile, albeit fragile, soils," Eimi Watanabe, Director of UNDP's Bureau for Development Policy, told the 2,500 conference participants from 159 countries.

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