“United for the land: Our legacy, our future” is the motto of this year’s commemoration of the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, for which the United Nations Organization calls this June 17 to mobilize the different actors to sustainably manage soils.
It is necessary to act and change the panorama marked by the degradation of 40 percent of the land on the planet, the impact of the drought that causes food instability and water supply for a quarter of the world’s inhabitants, and the effects of desertification suffered by 3.2 billion people.
Faced with this environmental crisis, the province of Guantánamo responds to the call to establish actions to rehabilitate the lands and achieve adequate management, in correspondence with the global mandate to restore one billion hectares by 2030.
In that sense, Guantánamo has a greater imperative as it has in its territory the Southern Coastal Strip, considered the Cuban Semidesert, due to its characteristics of fragile soils and low rainfall, conditions that are aggravated by the impact of climate change that raises temperatures and intensifies the drought periods.
Details of the work in the easternmost Cuban province to stop erosion processes and other actions, in favor of the soil, reflects the report by journalist Yaqueline De la Rosa Hermida for Radioguantanamo.
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