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Article: LATIN AMERICA: DESERTIFICATION - AN INVISIBLE CANCER
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
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- September 21, 2009
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Marcela Valente
Inter Press Service English News Wire
09-21-2009
BUENOS AIRES, Sep. 18, 2009 (IPS/GIN) - "Desertification is the
cancer of the earth," Argentine geographer Elena Abraham told IPS.
"It is a process of degradation that does not manifest itself in
spectacular ways but furtively advances, and by the time it is
visible there is nothing to be done, and people have to move away,
in search of an alternative."
Her warning came on the eve of the ninth session of the
Conference of the Parties (COP9) to the United Nations Convention
to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), to be held Sept. 21-Oct. 2 in
Buenos Aires, with the participation of more than 2,500 government
officials, scientists and ...