In honor of World Food Day, EarthAction is posting some of its best materials on desertification. We cannot achieve global security without food security, and we cannot achieve food security without combatting desertification.

A new Primer on Citizen Advocacy and Desertification is intended to help guide the efforts of citizen groups and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) interested in promoting policies and practices that help stop the spread of desertification.

Watch this simple but powerful demonstration by Yukie Hori of the UNCCD about why we must combat desertification.

The past two days of the World Forum on Desertification have been a great success! Thanks to everyone who has participated. If you missed it, here are some highlights:

This is a reminder that you are invited to participate in a Virtual World Community Forum on Desertification and Citizen Action -- Saving the Life-Giving Soils of the World, that will take place from Tuesday, February 28, 2012 to Tuesday, March 6, 2012.

Media Alert: Sponsorship for Journalists to Attend the UNCCD COP 10, Changwon, Republic of KoreaThe UNCCD secretariat will sponsor the participation of a total of four developing country journalists, drawn from the Africa, Asia & the Pacific and the Latin America & the Caribbean regions, to the tenth session of the Conference of the Parties that will take place in Changwon, Republic of Korea, from 10-21October 2011. The secretariat will cover the travel and accommodation costs for the duration of the conference.