Is the EU strategy to combat desertification effective in reducing the risk faced by 13 member states? That is what the European Court of Auditors (ECA) will seek to find out through an audit which it is conducting. The audit report is expected to be published by the end of the year, the ECA announced on Wednesday 31 January.
Desertification is defined by the United Nations as “land degradation in arid, semi-arid and dry sub humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic...