Brussels, 21/09/2011 (Agence Europe) - The Economics of Land Degradation is the title of an initiative launched on 21 September in New York during a meeting organised by the UN on soil degradation and desertification. Andris Piebalgs, the European commissioner for development, participated in this launch on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
The initiative will consist of a comprehensive assessment of land degradation that looks both at the costs of failing to prevent further land...