IDF wants more supporters in combating desertification
Benguela – The head of the provincial Department of Forestry Development Institute of Benguela, Cipriano Molongonga, held on Monday imperative that more local citizens to gather and engage in the strategy to combat desertification.
According to the official, who was speaking to ANGOP the purpose of the World Day to Combat Drought and Desertification (June 17), drought and desertification are environmental problems that must involve IDF or the Provincial Directorate of Environment, but success passes through the support of other sectors such as Education, business class and other areas of society.
considered that tackling this problem is the implementation of measures to mitigate deforestation, through the construction of dams or dams, opening chimpacas, the rational use of water resources and afforestation of inhospitable areas.
“The construction of dams and reservoirs used to enjoy the water at times when there is no rain, so the localities affected by drought can use this water to make drinking cattle and produce in the field, thus avoiding starvation “justified.
To combat the advance of drought in the Namib Desert, the official said that the Forestry Development Institute in Benguela province has a nursery that produces and distributes plants, plus a vast wooded area Bay-Abundant, which should be expanded.
He said that the demand for vegetables for food, indiscriminate felling of trees has interfered in combating desertification and it is therefore necessary to improve surveillance in the entire length of the province of Benguela.
Scientific research conducted since 2004 indicate that an average of 250 million people were directly affected by desertification phenomena and almost 20 percent of the world’s population live in areas at risk of desertification of torrential rain.
Day June 17, dedicated to the world Combat Drought and Desertification, was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1994.
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