desertification

• “The term desertification was coined to convey this drama of pressing and interconnected issues in drylands, but human-induced land degradation extends beyond drylands or forests.”

  Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 3

• “The threat of desertification is significant for over a third (35 percent) of Greek land and somewhat less so for another section accounting for half (49 percent) of the country, according to Constantinos Kosmas of Athens†™ s Agriculture University.”

  Sustainable Design Update » Blog Archive » Signs of Climate Change

• “Protecting forests to stop desertification is a major step towards strengthening our common global environment.”

  The Nobel Peace Prize 2004

• “Nutrition: Sub-Saharan countries are affected by increasing degradation of the environment -- which we commonly call desertification -- due to frequent droughts, cutting down of trees, soil erosion and poverty.”

  RHRealityCheck.org

• “First, a decades-long drought turned fertile lands in the north of Darfur into desert (in a process known as desertification), which made land use and land rights much more contentious.”

  Joel Whitney: My Interview with the Columbia Professor Who Says There is No Genocide in Darfur -- It's an Environmental Crisis

• “In the Sahelian zone, such plantations are not established on an industrial basis and are less important, except in Senegal where plantations are created to stop desertification, which is a pressing ecological problem.”

  Western Africa and forests and woodlands

• “Let me speak a moment about desertification, which is a long word that I suspect few people here are familiar with and few are experts in.”

  Press Briefing By David Sandalow

• “When I visited the Wodaabe Tribe in the Sahal they had never heard of the word desertification but they knew better than anyone that their soil was exhausted.”

  We Do It Our Way

• “A Global effect of climate change known as desertification is advancing the Gobi and currently threatens more than 400 million people in several Chinese provinces.”

  FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten

• “When the trees are decimated in a region, a process called "desertification" tends to occur downwind because the trees are no longer there to pump groundwater back into the atmosphere to fall back to Earth as additional rainfall at some down wind location.”

  The Huffington Post: Matthew Stein: The Perfect Storm: Six Trends Converging on Collapse

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