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The Desertification Fresk is an educational game created by the CGIAR Accelerate for Impact Platform and the start-up Sand to Green, with the support of the Presidency of COP15 Desertification and the participation of the company Foxtrot and the Senegalese Agency for Reforestation and the Great Green Wall.
A coalition of partners led by the CGIAR Accelerate for Impact Platform and the French-Moroccan start-up Sand to Green are launching the Desertification Fresk, an educational game designed to raise public awareness of the major challenges of desertification and drought.
The Fresk will be unveiled today at the World Food Forum, organized in Rome by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), by Alain-Richard Donwahi, President of the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
"For too long, desertification and drought have been seen as problems of poor countries. Yet desertification now affects more than 168 countries worldwide. This phenomenon directly jeopardizes food security and access to water for millions of people, and contributes significantly to the acceleration of climate change. It is urgent to talk about it and to mobilize", declares Alain-Richard Donwahi, President of COP15 Desertification.
Inspired by the Climate Fresk, the Desertification Fresk is a fun card game that helps players better understand desertification and drought. The game focuses on the causes of these phenomena and their multiple consequences: acceleration of climate change, impact on agricultural production and increased food insecurity, difficulties in accessing water, amplification of migratory phenomena and instability, reduction in biodiversity, and so on.
Each card of the game presents key facts and figures on desertification and drought, their causes and consequences. The data used is objective and scientifically verified by the CGIAR and various international organizations, including the Senegalese Agency for Reforestation and the Great Green Wall. The aim for participants is to connect the cards together to understand the causal links between different phenomena related to desertification.
"At Sand to Green, we are fighting desertification by restoring degraded land and transforming it into arable land. Since the launch of our company, we have seen the need to increase public awareness of the pressing issue of desertification, and to promote best practices to protect land. That is why we decided, with the CGIAR and all our partners, to launch this Fresk," explains Benjamin Rombaut, co-founder of Sand to Green.
