(par 7.3.2) The Convention to Combat Desertification
The Convention to Combat Desertification in those countries experiencing serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa (CCD) http://www.dirco.gov.za/foreign/Multilateral/inter/treaties/ccd.htm HISTORY AND PRESENT STATUS The Convention entered into force on 29 December 1997. South Africa ratified it on 28 September 1997. Desertification is the degradation of land in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas. It is caused […]
(par 7.3.2) Soil erosion in South Africa – its nature and distribution
Soil erosion in South Africa – its nature and distribution http://www.grainsa.co.za/soil-erosion-in-south-africa—its-nature-and-distribution November 2014 JAY LE ROUX, lecturer: Department of Geography, University of the Free State and HENDRIK SMITH, conservation agriculture facilitator, Grain SA Soil erosion is a major environmental problem confronting land and water resources in South Africa. Although soil erosion is a natural process, […]
(par 7.3.2) SA’s soil erosion crisis
SA’s soil erosion crisis http://www.farmersweekly.co.za/article.aspx?id=85570&h=SA%E2%80%99s-soil-erosion-crisis By Siyanda Sishuba, In ‘Erosion, the cancer of agriculture’ (FW, 22 Oct 2010), Lehman Lindeque, then president of the International Erosion Control Association SA, stated that the lack of soil conservation threatened SA’s limited resources. Prof Heinz Beckedahl at the University of KZN’s School of Environmental Science warns that the problem […]