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"en.20070906.12.4-085"2
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"I am supporting this joint resolution regarding the UN Convention to Combat Desertification and the ongoing meeting in Madrid. As we know desertification affects 20-30% of the world’s land area and 1.2 - 2 billion people – many of whom are in deep poverty – in at least 100 states.
As a consequence of climate change and human intervention with deforestation and over-farming, more and more of the world is becoming a desert. The consequence is increased poverty, forced migration and conflict. One most graphic example is Darfur, where desertification has driven a complex conflict between pastoralists and farmers, as the farmers have been driven eastwards onto the land of the latter with the generation of hundreds of thousands of refugees, rapes, mayhem and murder. Only strong and urgent international action can stop Darfur from being the first of many more similar conflicts, whose underlying cause is desertification."@en1
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