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| Photo: The federal cabinet last week ordered the unannounced withdrawal of a United Nations convention that fights droughts in Africa and elsewhere on the recommendation of Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, ahead of a major scientific meeting on the convention next month. (Rebecca Blackwell/Associated Press) |
A few weeks ago, Canada announced that it was withdrawing its support of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification. In doing so, we become the only country in the world that is not part of this agreement. Here is a column on that subject that appeared in the Calgary Herald.
The grim human toll of desertification
By Craig & Marc Kielburger, Calgary Herald April 8, 2013
Nora Busienei closed her eyes and smiled as she remembered years past when her small farmhouse burst at the seams with sacks of maize, beans, millet and pumpkins.
"I would stare at our harvest. I was so happy, so confident in my children's future," she said, before her smile faded. "That feels like another world now."
Today, her mud hut in Pimbiniet, Kenya, is full of nothing but choking smoke from the cooking fire.
Read more here: http://bit.ly/17GIBxi
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