Inter Press Service: “The entire social fabric of an area is compromised when soils are depleted,” says Italian expert Massimo Candelori, whose fight against desertification is increasingly linked to global efforts to combat climate change. As head of the facilitation, coordination and monitoring of implementation unit of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Candelori is in charge of ensuring that countries comply with soil preservation efforts, practically without …