Desertification in Africa causes damage to productive land

At least 4.4 million hectares of productive land are lost to desertification every year, leading to the malnutrition of some 68 million people in Africa, African Union Commissioner Josefa Correia Sacko said today in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.   The diplomat, who was speaking at the Tenth Special Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the…