Around 60% of the world's uncultivated arable land is to be found in Africa
Rio +20 makes no fresh, green breast of the new world | Fiona Harvey | Environment | guardian.co.uk
It was a shameful betrayal when you consider the problems Rio was intended to address: the poisoning of our air, the emptying of our seas, the filth and wastage of our water, the exhaustion of our soils, the vanishing of our trees, the degradation and forced misery of our people. Any one of these could threaten our very existence – we seem determined to push them all well beyond our world's limits.
Rio was quite possibly the last chance that we will have as a world to correct these terrible failures.
...We left Rio+20 to the politicians, the bureaucrats, the businesses, the journalists and the activists. We made a terrible mistake. We should have sent the poets.
Forest land has increased 10% since 1920, despite a 143% increase in population.
Flashback: New Jungles Prompt a Debate on Rain Forests - NYTimes.com
By one estimate, for every acre of rain forest cut down each year, more than 50 acres of new forest are growing in the tropics on land that was once farmed, logged or ravaged by natural disaster.
“There is far more forest here than there was 30 years ago,” said Ms. Ortega de Wing, 64, who remembers fields of mango trees and banana plants.
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