# @unoosa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DK_p7fst5eK
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/35584114-unoosa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-06-17T08:07:11.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** UNOOSA (@unoosa) — https://gondola.cc/unoosa

## Caption

🏜️ Desertification and drought impacts livelihoods, lowers economic activity, and increases the chance of conflict. Up to 40% of the world’s land is degraded. But from monitoring vegetation to identifying groundwater sources, space technologies are giving us powerful tools to act. 🌍

Today is the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought, placed under the theme "Restore the land. Unlock the opportunities". For the occasion, #UNOOSA is explaining how satellites track desertification, and support land restoration and water resilience across the world. 

Swipe through and learn how:

🌱 #Earthobservation satellites power land restoration efforts and combat #desertification from the 🇺🇸 Western US to 🇧🇭 Bahrain
💧 Real-time satellite data helps prevent #drought and support farming
🌐 UNOOSA, through #Space4Water and UNSPIDER, builds local capacity to use satellite data to monitor and respond to natural disasters and climate change.

1️⃣ Learn more about space solutions currently developed by the Space4Water project here: https://space4water.org/space-based-solutions

2️⃣ Check out the work of UN-SPIDER here: https://www.un-spider.org/

3️⃣ Read more about the World Day to Combat Desertification And Drought here: https://www.un.org/en/observances/desertification-day

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earthobservation, space4water, unoosa, desertification, drought

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