‘The country is becoming a desert’: Drought-struck Spain is …
May 13, 2023 · The United Nations has already sounded the alarm on Spain’s growing water scarcity, estimating that almost 75 percent of the country is already in the process of desertification.
Farmer vs. sand: Spain’s fight against desertification
Apr 3, 2019 · According to a special report published by the European Court of Auditors in December 2018, three-quarters of Spain faces desertification, making it one of the most seriously affected countries in Europe.
Spain worries over 'lifeless land' amid creeping desertification - Phys.org
Aug 1, 2023 · According to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, 75 percent of Spain's land is battling climatic conditions that could lead to desertification, making it the European nation most...
Battling desertification: Bringing soil back to life in semiarid Spain
Oct 17, 2023 · Southeastern Spain is experiencing the northward advance of the Sahara Desert, leading to declining rainfall, soil degradation, and climate change-induced droughts, threatening agricultural lands that have been farmed for many centuries.
Spain counts cost of agribusiness in rising desertification
Aug 24, 2021 · In Spain, about 20 per cent of land is already desertified, largely for historic reasons such as the destructive mining and overfarming that followed the change of use of land expropriated...
Desertification: A Serious Threat To Southern Europe - Forbes
Jul 30, 2019 · Spain is the most worrying example: according to the National action programs (NAPs) for the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) about 74% of Spain is at risk of...
Murcia’s farmers fear for the future as Spain cuts water ... - Euronews
May 3, 2023 · But, as Spain faces the realities of climate change with three-quarters of the country at risk of desertification, the government has decided to limit the flow of water from the Tagus to the...
Desertification - ClimateChangePost
At large part of Spanish territory suffers from desertification. Different numbers are being reported: one fifth of the land is currently at risk of turning into deserts (1); 31.5% of the land is already affected by desertification (2).
An Atlas of Desertification for Spain - ResearchGate
Sep 14, 2023 · Desertification in Spain has continued to worsen and the first two decades of the 21st century have consolidated an agri-food model whose dynamics have exacerbated the desertification...
Desertification in Spain: A Sound Diagnosis without Solutions
Feb 10, 2022 · Spain tackled the diagnosis of desertification in a very precise manner, developing more than 10 years ago a methodology similar to the convergence of evidence being proposed by the WAD as a new paradigm to study and combat desertification.