CURRENT AFFAIRS: IMPORTANT DAYS
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought – Observed on June 17
- The World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is a United Nations observance celebrated each year on 17 June.
- The themeof World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought 2021 is “Restoration. Land. Recovery”.
- The restoration of land brings for us various benefits including economic resilience, jobs, income growth, and food security, slows down climate change and recharges biodiversity.
- Its purpose is to raise awareness of the presence of desertification and drought, highlighting methods of preventing desertification and recovering from drought.
- Droughtis natural phenomenon when one area receives no water and becomes barren with no vegetation.
- Desertification is a process of turning out a productive fertile land to a non-productive land and in severe cases the dry lands are termed as desertification.
