18 abril 2012 | EN | FR Regreening is being monitored by village
committees in Niger World leaders must promote effective land
use methods to mitigate drought, says Luc Gnacadja of the UN
Convention to Combat Desertification. Severe droughts in Africa
are a stark reminder of global unfairness. About 13 million
people still struggle to have enough food in the Horn of Africa,
and about the same number, most of them children, suffer from
hunger in the Sahel region, which stretches across Africa below
the Sahara. Droughts now hit these parts of Sub-Saharan Africa
more frequently than the usual ten-year cycle, and more
severely. And people living there are the least responsible for
this climatic change. Last year, the response of the
international community to the Horn of Africa crisis was
catastrophically late and slow. Tens of thousands of people may
have been rescued if we had not waited for the food crisis
across East Africa to escalate into famine in Somalia. To make
things worse, humanitarian relief eventual