The process of degradation has reached the point where measures urgently need to be taken to counter and limit it, taking into consideration that desertification is a danger which has threatened and continues to threaten human societies across the world in general and in Africa in particular with starvation and destitution.
Le processus de dégradation a atteint un point tel que des mesures urgentes s &apos; imposent pour le limiter, sachant que la désertification a fait, et continue de faire, courir aux sociétés humaines partout dans le monde, et en particulier en Afrique, le risque de connaître la famine et le dénuement.