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BRAZIL / DESERTIFICATION LAUNCH
STORY: BRAZIL / DESERTIFICATION LAUNCH
TRT: 1.37
SOURCE: UNTV
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 16 AUGUST 2010, FORTALEZA, BRAZIL
1. Wide shot, ICID 2010 sign
2. Wide shot, auditorium
3. Wide shot, audience
4. Wide shot, Luc Gnacadja addressing conference
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary, UNCCD:
“There is a number of misperceptions, misconceptions about what degradation of the land is, what desertification is, and why it is so essential for global sustainability as well as the well-being of people at any local community level. So, due to that need, the General Assembly has called for 2010 to 2020 to be the Decade on Deserts and the Fight against Desertification.”
6. Close up, audience
7. Wide shot, Davi Santos, 13, Junior Mayor of local town (Maracanaú), addressing the conference
8. Med shot, Antonio Magalhães (Director of ICID +18), Luc Gnacadja and Cid Gomes (state governor) sign a poster of the Decade for Deserts and Fight against Desertification
9. Wide shot, Herve Thery, Geography Professor, making a presentation on dry lands and semi-arid regions
10. Med shot, audience
FILE – UNTV - OCTOBER 2008, WAJIR, EASTERN KENYA
11. Wide shot, barren landscape
12. Close up, dry soil
FILE -IRIN - 2008, KENYA
13. Wide shot, wom,an walking in desert
FILE – UNTV - OCTOBER 2008, WAJIR, EASTERN KENYA
14. Aerial shot, Wajir
FILE - UNHCR – 3, 4 APRIL 2009, IRIDIMI REFUGEE CAMP, EASTERN CHAD
15. Wide shot, woman walking in desert
16. Wide shot, women walking in camp
17. Wide shot, lorry in desert carrying wood
18. Various shots, refugee women in desert carrying wood
FILE - UNICEF - 1-3 MARCH 2010, MAO, CHAD
19. Close-up, skull of a dead donkey
20. Med shot, skeleton of the donkey
FILE – WFP - 19 JULY 2010, TONDIKWINDI, NIAMEY, NIGER
21. Wide shots, deserted land
The United Nations today unveiled a decade-long push to raise awareness and mobilize action to fight desertification, which threatens the livelihoods of more than 1 billion people in 100 countries.
At the launch in Fortaleza Brazil, Luc Gnacadja, Executive Secretary of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) said that There were a number of misperceptions, about what degradation of the land was, what desertification was, and why it was so essential for global sustainability as well as the well-being of people at any local community level. So, he added that due to that need, the General Assembly had called for 2010 to 2020 to be the Decade on Deserts and the Fight against Desertification.”
Nearly all of the inhabitants of dry lands are in developing countries, and the official issued a call for international cooperation on financial assistance, capacity building and technology transfer.
The Decade, he emphasized, must fight lingering misperceptions of drylands as being wastelands, marginal areas or liabilities, as well as the idea that desertification is only a local – not global – concern.
Desertification is defined as the degradation of dry lands, which comprise more than 40 per cent of the world’s land surface and are home to 2.1 billion people – one in every three people worldwide.
One third of all crops cultivated today have their origins in dry lands, which also support half of all livestock. Some 12 million hectares of land – an area the size of Benin and which could produce 20 million tons of grain annually – are lost every year to degradation, resulting in an annual loss of $42 billion.
The General Assembly designated 2010-2020 as the Decade in 2007 to heighten public awareness of the threat posed by desertification, land degradation and drought to sustainable development.
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