In Ghana, a three-day workshop will focus on medicinal plants, conserving fresh water, renewable energy and desertification. |
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Deforestation and desertification, caused in part by overpopulation, force people off of the hinterlands and into the cities. |
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Mozambique has experienced recurrent drought, flooding, cyclones, water pollution, and desertification. |
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And thus desert and sandy areas are being extended by the impact of wind, and therefore further desertification is taking place. |
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The rest of the Arab lands are threatened by desertification due to anthropogenic activities including overgrazing. |
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This is because trees fight greenhouse emissions, pollution and reduce desertification, droughts, floods and storms. |
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The burgeoning populations of this area is contributing to its desertification by clearing forest for agriculture as well as for firewood. |
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It pays poor rural women to plant trees across the country to protect their farms from soil erosion and desertification. |
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This puts enormous pressure on the environment, contributing to deforestation and desertification in these countries. |
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We must also remember that the potential damage to more southerly developing countries could include devastating flooding and desertification. |
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This rerouting of the river caused desertification of the agriculturally rich delta lands in Mexico. |
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It is this population boom that has put a strain on the land resource in Zambia creating a breeding ground for desertification. |
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Agriculture was neglected throughout this period, and desertification gradually reduced arable land. |
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Pollution, erosion, desertification, increased rates of extinction and more can all be traced back to us. |
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The UN in 2000 reported that half of all land in South Asia has lost agricultural potential because of desertification. |
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And there's also the risk of serious soil erosion leading to possible desertification. |
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Deforestation, desertification and the number of endangered species continue to rise. |
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However, there is a need for greater global and regional cooperation, with financial and technical support, to combat desertification. |
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Although climate changes in Palaeolithic times 25,000 years ago began to lead to desertification, there were still summer rains in the Neolithic era. |
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With a significant portion of Mongolian territory lying in the Gobi, what is your country doing to curb the desertification process? |
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Threatened by erosion, desertification, overgrazing and global warming, cedar forests in the Moroccan Middle Atlas Mountains are going through a hard time. |
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One root cause of desertification and deforestation is the use of wood as the basic source of energy, with the consequent loss of trees and degradation of the soil. |
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The litany of contemporary change includes global warming, ozone loss, soil erosion, deforestation, desertification, collapsing fisheries, and disappearing aquifers. |
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Scientists think that jatropha can stabilize or even reverse desertification. |
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We will firmly continue to support efforts to mainstream action against desertification into relevant national policies and plans. |
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Deforestation rate is estimated at approximately 350 kha per year and is one of the key drivers of increasing desertification. |
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No success story showing the vitality, inventiveness and combativeness of dryland populations in the face of desertification has been told. |
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Forests prevent soil erosion and desertification especially in mountains or semi arid areas, mostly by limiting runoff and lowering wind speed. |
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Linking agricultural exchanges to global changes, in other words to the problems of climatic changes, biodiversity and desertification. |
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Flooding, drought and desertification can extend these burdens geographically, forcing more girls in more communities to forego education. |
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The result is an anarchistic use of the land on fragile ecosystems, erosion and desertification. |
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So why do we invariably connect higher temperatures with droughts and desertification? |
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Associated Schools served as a test group for an educational kit on the alarming trend of desertification. |
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Satellites provide information on aspects of desertification such as regional sand dune migration and vegetation cover degradation. |
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Rapidly expanding desertification and the lack of access to water are threatening entire ways of life such as pastoralist or nomadic lifestyles. |
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But there has been no other time in the history of the world when greenhouse gases, airborne methane and mercury, desertification, and deforestation have been around. |
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In the long run, agrofuel development will greatly speed up the global environmental destruction, desertification, and hunger. |
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Past experiences have unfortunately blamed the very victims of desertification for causing it, without addressing the underlying forces that are driving them to overexploit the land. |
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Problems related to inadequate provision of water in these areas have not come out although this is a basic resource both in desertification and in controlling desertification. |
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By impoverishing the natural potential of the ecosystems, desertification increases the risk of conflicts between ethnic groups, families and individuals. |
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It is anticipated that those changes will have wide-reaching impacts on the use of natural resources, agricultural productivity and socioeconomic conditions in the region and will speed up the desertification process. |
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There is also a low degree of consciousness of the state of facts and noninvolvement in actions for the prevention and alleviation of soil desertification and degradation. |
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Now that many climatologists are predicting an increase in temperature, with an increased risk of extreme drought, it is good to take preventive measures to limit the impact of drought, including desertification. |
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The main objective of a desertification early warning system is to forewarn people about land degradation and its potential impacts, so that remedial measures can be taken in advance. |
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Climatological debates teach us that atmospheric water loss causes further desertification, which in turn is responsible for further climate warming. |
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Kit B targeted at teachers at the primary-school level B will inform on the problems, causes and consequences of desertification, and will offer some solutions in the field of combating desertification. |
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When such resources become scarce, as is the case with desertification, time-honoured customs such as gleaning by poor people, and women in particular, are no longer permitted. |
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Thanks to its rusticity and ability to regenerate after exposure to fire, the palmito is ecologically very valuable against soil erosion and desertification. |
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Aridisation and desertification affects on drying up lakes and ponds. |
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This voyage-investigation allows the audience to share the perspective of Sékou, an elevator repairman in Paris who, while on a visit to his family in Mali, decides to find ways to fight desertification. |
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The very name of the Convention may perhaps be misleading since the fundamental problem is one of land degradation, of which desertification is a key element. |
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The combined miseries of coastal flooding, desertification, species loss, agricultural dislocation and disease migration are almost too much to imagine. |
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In arid areas trees may even aggravate desertification by depleting groundwater and killing grasses that bind the soil. Most of the mega-scheme's critics think that with the right plants and methods, it could succeed. |
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But the impact would be negative on much of southern Europe, which would suffer severe water shortages, crop failures and maybe even desertification. |
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If no measures to eliminate the negative factors are taken, desertification will be present forever or the costs for environmental remediation will be incomensurate. |
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Climate change is worsening desertification, although until now it has been mostly local activity which has affected it, such as logging and inappropriate farming, irrigation and cattle breeding methods. |
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Climate change is viewed as taking place within a global-scale environmental system, while desertification is often viewed as widely dispersed effects of local environmental degradation. |
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Water was a strategic resource which was becoming increasingly scarce in the face of Morocco's expanding population, economic growth and desertification. |
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The Kit will comprise a teachers' guide, several case studies on desertification from Africa, Asia, Arab States, Latin America and Europe, and a cartoon. |
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The high level of concern in land vulnerability was cited with regard to widespread desertification of land with irreversible changes to soil structure or nutrient status. |
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The result could even be that production ceases altogether, which would further increase the already high susceptibility of these regions to desertification. |
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Examples include improving the soil's carbon and water storage capacity, and conserving water in natural systems to alleviate the effect of droughts and to prevent floods, soil erosion and desertification. |
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The communities there are facing the destruction of their livelihoods and way of life, and eventual dislocation, due to loss of water through desertification and climate change. |
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Several activities are currently ongoing in Europe to monitor and manage drought, water scarcity and desertification risks, at both national and European level. |
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Livestock production is a contributing factor in species extinction, desertification, and habitat destruction. |
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For example, improper cropping and irrigation practices have led to desertification in areas of Uzbekistan, where cotton is a major export. |
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The desertification problems predominantly stem from the severe times of drought in the country. |
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The area is an example of desertification, and no further growth of any type may arise for generations. |
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Plants have been selected which suit the local habitat, act as windbreakers and curb desertification. |
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Larger, faster or more radical changes, however, may result in vegetation stress, rapid plant loss and desertification in certain circumstances. |
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The ice sheets profoundly affected Earth's climate by causing drought, desertification, and a dramatic drop in sea levels. |
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Around 3500 BC, due to a tilt in the earth's orbit, the Sahara experienced a period of rapid desertification. |
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This climate change caused lakes and rivers to shrink significantly and caused increasing desertification. |
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Jibrell was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2002 for her efforts against environmental degradation and desertification. |
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They usually indicate desertification or soil erosion, and serve as nesting and burrow sites for animals. |
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The organization was awarded for its efforts to prevent further desertification in Africa. |
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However, while being a relatively inexpensive fuel that meets a user's needs, the production of charcoal often leads to deforestation and desertification. |
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Examples include World Tuberculosis Day, Earth Day, and the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. |
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Desertification is the process of fertile land turning into barren desert due to climate change or human causes, like overplowing or deforesting land. |
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