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How safeguarding land protects our future

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Inger Andersen is Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme



When you live on the edge, you become acutely aware of balance.



As a young woman straight out of university in 1982, I had the privilege of teaching English at a Sudanese girls’ high school. After a couple of years, I landed a job supporting the emergency and relief work during the Sudanese drought and associated famine. 



Those communities in Sudan knew very well that their two most precious asse

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