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Desertification is usually associated with cool-downs not warm-ups (though to be sure local desertification may occur if wind patterns shift).
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Desertification, which is primarily the result of destructive land-management practices, threatens a third of the Earth's surface; tens of thousands of Chinese villages have been overrun by sand drifts in the past few decades.
What will future generations condemn us for? Kwame Anthony Appiah 2010
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Desertification occurs when individual land degradation processes, acting locally, combine to affect large areas of drylands.
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Desertification occurs when land degradation processes, acting locally, combine to affect large areas in drylands.
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The international community has been engaged in efforts to combat desertification on this continent and other continents for quite a while, and there is now an international treaty called the Desertification Convention, agreed to several years ago.
Press Briefing By David Sandalow ITY National Archives 1998
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"Desertification" of Lebanon was a grim reality but it was "neither acceptable nor logical" to allow the phenomenon to destroy Lebanon's coveted forests, Siniora said as he introduced the "National Strategy for Managing Forest Fires: Building Partnerships" at the Grand Serail.
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"Desertification" of Lebanon was a grim reality but it was "neither acceptable nor logical" to allow the phenomenon to destroy Lebanon's coveted forests, Siniora said as he introduced the "National Strategy for Managing Forest Fires: Building Partnerships" at the Grand Serail.
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Desertification is ruining the North, while a water crisis of subsiding Himalayan glaciers, plus the Monsoon shift, is literally ravaging the heart of Han.
Michael Vlahos: America and China: Partners or Rivals? Michael Vlahos 2011
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In January 2008, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification was held in Beijing, a megacity that is already severely swept by dust storms from western and northern regions every year.
Wonk Room » China’s Changing Climate Provides New Energy In Negotiations 2009
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Also, U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification experts and others call for greater investment in smallholder farms, empowering community-based organizations to manage the land, addressing land ownership and land degradation issues, and rolling out comprehensive national action plans on drought prevention.
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