Secretary-General Addresses High-level Meeting on Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought in the Context of Sustainable Development and Poverty Eradication. He says that drought and land degradation must move to the centre of policy development. He stresses that by refocusing our development agenda to include the potential of drylands, we can break the links between poverty and desertification, drought and land degradation.