Source: The News
Date: August 24, 2010
Minister for Environment Hameedullah Jan Afridi on Monday said that climate change and global warming are the major causes of devastating floods and forestation process should be increased on war footing to avoid such calamities in future.
While presiding over a meeting regarding Sustainable Land Management (SLM) he said that climate change related events are posing additional pressure on the productivity of the land resources.
He said land degradation and deforestation are severe challenges, which are adversely affecting food security and economic recession in the country that are main causes of the environmental degradation.
The minister said that desertification and land degradation has affected one-third of the earth’s surface threatening the livelihoods, well being and development of as many as one billion people. Nearly one-third of world cropland has become unproductive and has been abandoned in past 40 years. Moreover, almost three quarters of rangelands show various symptoms of desertification.
Afridi said that unsustainable land management practices in the country are main causes of environmental degradation, adding Pakistan is an agricultural country having best irrigation system but there should be a proper management mechanism to utilize it properly.
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