With about 14 million Nigerians in the northern part of the
country and 43 percent of the country’s land mass affected by desertification,
Nigeria is in danger and have an emergency at hand, the Permanent Secretary,
Federal Ministry of Environment, Mrs Fatima Nana Mede, has said. She explained “Our
greatest challenges is that the most vulnerable are the less privileged in our
society who cannot on their own mitigate the emerging multifaceted problems of
desertification”.
She also said, “The recommended forest cover for Nigeria is
25 percent but currently Nigeria has less than six percent forest cover meaning
that we contribute to factors that can cause climate change and we know the
implication of that in our lives and the future of our children. This is a
clarion call for us to get up and do something, we must take concrete actions
to combat desertification”.
Desertification threatens human security by depriving people
of the means of decent livelihood and undercuts food production, access to
water and means to economic activity.
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