According to the latest Global Land Outlook report, from South Africa, where unprecedented floods this month washed away farmland, to the excessive logging of Kenya's mountain forests, Africa is fast losing healthy land, putting millions of people at risk of hunger and losing their homes and incomes. Factors such as climate change, over-grazing, excessive cultivation, deforestation and urbanization have left up to 40% of the planet's land degraded - affecting half of humanity, a report by the United Nations' anti-desertification agency said on Wednesday. But it is not too late to curb land degradation and restore dry land to fertile forests, the report added, citing a plethora of initiatives from Burkina Faso to Malawi that are working. Here are some facts from the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) report and what it means for Africa.