New financing solutions are required to close the “massive gap” in funding to address the problem of farming land around the world turning to dust, the head of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has warned.
Speaking to The Independent, Yasmine Fouad, a former environment minister in Egypt, who has served as UNCCD executive secretary since 2025, said that failing to tackle the world’s escalating degradation problem would see food crises get worse, while increasing the risk of conflict.
