FAO participates in King Faisal University workshop on methods for monitoring the desertification process and ways to address it

26 February 2023, Cairo - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is participating in a workshop entitled "Methods for Monitoring the Desertification Process and Ways to Address It", organized by King Faisal University (KFU), represented by the Environmental Protection Unit at the Vice Presidency for Graduate Studies and Scientific Research, in cooperation with the College of Agricultural Sciences on February 26, in Al-Hasa, Saudi Arabia.

The workshop aims to introduce the dangers of desertification and educate the community about its harmful effects on the environment, society and the economy. Discussions will include defining the rules and regulations governing the operations of preserving vegetation cover and presenting the most important and effective methods and techniques to combat desertification, in addition to introducing sustainable land and water management methods.

FAO is delivering two presentations, “Transboundary pests and plants and their devastating effects on vegetation cover” by Thaer Yaseen, Regional Plant Protection Officer at FAO regional office in the Near East and North Africa (NENA), and “International efforts to combat desertification”, which will be presented by Firas Ziyadat, Land and Water Department official at FAO office in Rome.

The workshop discusses a set of topics related to desertification: sustainable land and water management, international efforts to combat desertification, evaluation of international legal mechanisms for combating desertification within the framework of sustainable development, protection of vegetation cover and green belts, and the relationship between climate change and desertification.