THE DESERTIF’ACTIONS 2022 PRESS CARTOON COMPETITION

Deadline: August 20, 2022

The “Lands and Droughts” press cartoon competition, organized as part of Désertif’actions 2022 in partnership with France Cartoons and Cartooning for Peace, has been launched.
For its 4th drawing competition, the organizers of Désertif’actions 2022 wanted to deal with a subject that is extremely topical in both southern and northern countries: “land and droughts”. This theme follows “the earth makes its climate” in Montpellier in 2015, “land and climate, the time to act” in Strasbourg in 2017, and “draw me the Great Green Wall” in Ouagadougou in 2019.

The international press cartoon competition “Lands and Droughts” took the prism of droughts to better illustrate the role and place of land and soils in the functioning of the terrestrial ecosystem, climate regulation, food security, maintaining the biodiversity of living organisms, and, in general, in all terrestrial life and its well-being.
Droughts, their impacts, and their treatment expose the form of unconsciousness, indifference, and even contempt shown by humanity for the earth and soils. However, warming temperatures, loss of biodiversity, food insecurity, and many other threats, all linked to the continuous degradation of land, have taken a worrying turn, which at the same time increases inequalities and poverty and threatens the future of human societies.

Through humor, derision, irony, or enthusiasm, as only a drawing can do, it is a question of highlighting all the paradoxes, inconsistencies, ignorance, leaks, contempt, or human arrogance expressed by the treatment that is subjected to land and soil in urban and rural areas. But also all the hopes, commitments, courage, initiatives, and solutions such as agroecology, which constitute so many seeds of a change already underway for viable land and future.

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Article Rules

Article 1: Participants
The international press cartoon contest is an initiative of the organizers of the 5th
Desertif’actions 2022 summit in Montpellier (France), which will take place from 5 to 8
October 2022.
The contest is open to any cartoonist from any country who has published at least one
cartoon in the press since June 2021. Each cartoonist can submit only two drawings, black
and white or color.

Article 2: Theme
For its 4th international contest, the organizers of Desertif’actions 2022 wanted to deal with
a subject of raw topicality in the countries of the South as well as in the North: “land and
droughts”.
This theme follows the previous editions of “the earth makes its climate” in Montpellier in
2015, “land and climate, time to act” in Strasbourg in 2017 and “draw me the Great Green
Wall” in Ouagadougou in 2019.
Through humor, derision, irony, or enthusiasm, as only a drawing can do, the aim is to
highlight all the paradoxes, inconsistencies, ignorance, evasiveness, contempt, or human
arrogance expressed in the treatment that is given to land and soil in urban and rural areas.
But also all the hopes, commitments, courage, initiatives, and solutions such as agroecology, which are the seeds of a change already underway for viable land and future.

Article 3: Submission of the drawing
The submission of the drawing must be sent by email at the following address:
contact@desertif-actions.org (with the mention “DA 22 DRAWING CONTEST” in the subject
of the email) before the deadline of August 20, 2022, at 00:00 hours in electronic format
JPEG 300 dpi minimum for an A4 format.
The submission must be accompanied by the full name, possible pseudonym, postal address
and country, phone number or WhatsApp, email address, website, and 5 lines of biography
of the author.
If there are subtitles or any text in the drawing, please send us translations in both French and
English.

Article 4: Prizes
Two prizes will be awarded by the organizers :
➢ The first prize: 1500 euros on behalf of the United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification
➢ The second prize: 750 euros on behalf of the organizers of DA22
The winner of the first prize will be invited to Montpellier in France during the
Desertif’actions 2022 event from October 05 to 08, 2022 where the prize and a dedicated

creation will be awarded.
All participants will receive a certificate of participation and the complete catalog of the
submitted drawings.

Article 5: Jury
The jury will be presided over by a personality from the world of the arts and the press and
will be composed of 7 people with different skills in the field of press cartoons and the
organizers of Desertif-Actions 2022.

Article 6: Rights
As this is an event of general interest, participants in the contest agree not to claim any
copyright or publication rights in the context of the Desertif’actions 2022 event and its
aftermath, and authorize the organizers (United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification, CARI, and OSS) to use the drawings with citation of the author, only free of
charge and for public interest purposes.

Article 7: Public exhibition
The 30 best drawings selected by the jury will be printed and exhibited publicly during the
Desertif’actions 2022 event from October 5 to 8, 2022, and may subsequently be used for
educational and awareness-raising purposes.

They will also be posted on the website of the organizers and partners of Desertif’actions
2022.

Article 8: Results
The results of the contest will be announced to the two winners individually in early
September. Results will be made public prior to the Desertif’actions 2022 Summit.

Article 9: Organizers
The organizers of the contest are the initiators of the Desertif’actions 2022 Summit; the
(NGO) association CARI, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and the
Sahara and Sahel Observatory, in partnership with France-Cartoons.

Application Registration Deadline: 20 August, 2022

To Apply: Click here

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