Interview: UNCCD chief calls for joint efforts to tackle global land degradation

BERLIN, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Joint efforts are required to tackle challenges such as desertification and land loss, the executive secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua on Monday in Bonn, Germany.

Ibrahim Thiaw stressed that land degradation is occurring rapidly worldwide while human beings continue to extract resources from the land