UN / DESERTIFICATION ADVANCER

Desertification, defined as land degradation in the drylands, threatens the livelihoods of more than 1 billion people in some 100 countries and could lead to disruption of up to 44 percent of all the world's cultivated systems. The UN will launch the Decade for Deserts and the Fight Against Desertification on 16 August 2010 in Fortaleza, Brazil. FILE

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:13
• Production Date: 13 August 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Corporate Name: INTEGRATED REGIONAL INFORMATION NETWORKS - IRIN; UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF; UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES - UNHCR; OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS - OCHA
• Subject Topical: NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; LAND; PLANTS; SOIL RESOURCES; WILDLIFE; AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; FISHING
• MAMS Id: U100813d

Description

STORY: UN / DESERTIFICATION ADVANCER
TRT: 1.13
SOURCE: UNTV/IRIN/OCHA/UNHCR/UNICEF/WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: NATS

DATELINE: FILE

Shotlist

FILE – UNTV - OCTOBER 2008, WAJIR, EASTERN KENYA

1. Wide shot, barren landscape
2. Close up, dry soil
3. Zoom out, from woman to standing camel
4. Various shots, village
5. Various shots, desert

FILE -IRIN - 2008, KENYA

6. Various shots, desert

FILE – UNTV - OCTOBER 2008, WAJIR, EASTERN KENYA

7. Aerial shot, Wajir
8. Close up, land
9. Wide shot, camels walking
10. Med shot, dry tree branches
11. Wide shot, woman walking in dry land

FILE - UNHCR – 3, 4 APRIL 2009, IRIDIMI REFUGEE CAMP, EASTERN CHAD

12. Wide shot, woman walking in desert
13. Wide shot, women walking in camp
14. Wide shot, Sadia Abakar chopping wood
15. Wide shot, women loading donkey and walking with water
16. Wide shot, lorry in desert carrying wood
17. Various shots, refugee women in desert carrying wood

FILE - UNICEF - 1-3 MARCH 2010, MAO, CHAD

18. Wide shot, two people on camels on desert outskirts of Mao
19. Wide shot, two children in the sandy desert outside Mao
20. Close-up, skull of a dead donkey
21. Med shot, skeleton of the donkey

FILE – WFP - 19 JULY 2010, TONDIKWINDI, NIAMEY, NIGER

22. Wide shots, deserted land

20 JULY 2010, MARA, NIAMEY

23. Wide shot, man walking on dry land
24. Wide shot, dry land
25. Med shot, cow

Storyline

Desertification, defined as land degradation in the drylands, threatens the livelihoods of more than 1 billion people in some 100 countries and could lead to disruption of up to 44 percent of all the world’s cultivated systems.

Recent studies indicate that drylands not only take up over 40 percent of the land surface but are also home to 2.1 billion people; that's one in every three people worldwide.

Drylands support 50 percent of the world’s livestock, serve as rich wildlife habitats and account for nearly half of all cultivated systems.

To promote actions that will protect the world's drylands from further deterioration and degradation into deserts, the United Nations will launch the Decade for Deserts and the Fight Against Desertification on 16 August 2010 in the city of Fortaleza, the dryland State of Ceará, Brazil.