Befitting the landscape of the UAE, desertification, aridity, and salinity inspired the six-course meal that was shared among biennial attendees on tables carved out like desertification patterns.
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Ningxia became the first province in China to reverse desertification.
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His research has primarily focused on desertification of Xinjiang ecology.
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Today 500 million people live in areas that experience desertification.
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Desertification and sandstorms lift radioactive war detritus into the air.
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Desertification has driven nomadic farmers into overwhelmed cities and towns.
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This will cause flooding in some places, desertification in others.
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Others are prone to more frequent droughts, desertification and floods.
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Over time, the planet undergoes widespread desertification and suffers mass extinctions.
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Map No. 1: the most vulnerable regions of desertification in 2008.
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With increased desertification comes an increased risk of dust-borne diseases.
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"The lands threatened by desertification exceed 60% of the national territory ... Having an estimate of the critical investments we must make to address the issue of desertification and soil erosion can have a great impact," he said.
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In a bitter twist, doing so accelerates desertification, further degrading the land.
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Some scientists believe that it may be making the desertification problem worse.
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Planting trees often does little to remedy the underlying causes of desertification.
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Trees in the preserved forest anchor the soil, slowing erosion and preventing desertification.
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Desertification is the trigger, and climate change and population explosions are the amplifiers.
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Map No. 1: the most vulnerable regions of desertification in Africa in 2008.
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"At the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, Morocco was one of the first countries to ratify the agreement on biodiversity, desertification and climate change," said Abdelâdim Lhafi, High Commissioner for Water, Forests and the Fight Against Desertification of Morocco.
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But an alternative model is demonstrating how to succeed in the battle against desertification.
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Solving the twin problems of land degradation and desertification poses a greater challenge still.
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What are some ways in which the discussion over desertification in China is politicized?
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It briefly notes military installations affected drought, particularly in the southwest, and by desertification.
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The worst case scenario is desertification, which already threatens vast swaths of the earth.
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"We now lose 100,000 hectares of arable land every year to desertification," says Chaifou.
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But now desertification is changing the landscape and invading on precious agricultural and habitable land.
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In Ethiopia, desertification and land grabs are pushing nomads south into farming lands or towns.
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But there's a reason the UN calls it a "miracle plant" that can combat desertification.
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Melting glaciers put it at risk of water shortages, while drought and desertification imperil its agriculture.
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There's desertification, water shortages, giant dust storms and some of these problems are getting more severe.
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And they are all going in the wrong direction: global temperatures, desertification, deforestation, ocean acidification, freshwater eutrophication.
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Such warming has caused more heatwaves, droughts and heavy precipitation, as well as land degradation and desertification.
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Desertification and droughts are creating havoc around the world, encouraging mass migration, dislocation, unemployment and racial strife.
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But Sudan has received little funding to help deal with problems such as spreading desertification, El Ghizouli said.
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About 500 million people live in areas that experienced desertification between the 1980s and 2000s, the report said.
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After years of desertification, its rich biodiversity is under threat and drought has hindered the fight against hunger.
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China's "green Great Wall" of trees—a bid to halt desertification—may be doing more harm than good.
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The government has relocated about 30,000 "ecological migrants" because of desertification caused by drought, climate change and overgrazing.
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Like much in China, the desertification debate is shaped by policy and decisions that stress man over nature.
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I have been following the international negotiations on climate change, biodiversity and desertification for more than 10 years.
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Something to do with the great migrations above the Hindu Kush, the desertification of Iranian wetlands, mass extinction.
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Lack of precipitation and prolonged droughts can cause any number of adverse effects, including wildfires, dust storms, and desertification.
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Research by the University of Ibadan shows that 15 of the country's 19 northern states are struggling with desertification.
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In Africa, for example, desertification sharpens local conflicts, as well as ruining livelihoods, and this forces people to flee.
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In more recent history, Ningxia was a poverty-stricken coal region whose dusty scrubland was in danger of desertification.
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In doing so, "Tree Mountain" literally and conceptually confronts climate change, desertification, deforestation, legal structures of reclamation, and more.
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Scientists say large stretches of Africa are drying up, and they predict more desertification, more drought and more hunger.
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Some scholars say that this policy is misguided, and that animal grazing is not the main cause of desertification.
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Drought and desertification lead to famine and conflict over water, fueling regional conflicts and political unrest, and increasing migration.
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The trees have deep roots which help provide soil stabilization by absorbing water and protect the local environment from desertification.
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According to the Toba Sea-Folk Museum, sea desertification and the drop in natural resources is threatening the Ama practice.
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China, which recently adopted a pro-environment policy, is concerned about ongoing desertification, rising sea levels, and poor air quality.
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The logging also adds to desertification, which, in turn, causes conflict across the Sahel, an arid belt below the Sahara.
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For example, gradual desertification in Israel, Lebanon and Jordan caused by global warming is leading to land degradation and infertility.
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I'm traveling with Monique Barbut, who heads the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification, and Adamou Chaifou, Niger's minister of environment.
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The awards have previously honored policies combating desertification, violence against women and girls, nuclear weapons and pollution of the oceans.
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In Africa and the Indo-Pacific region, for example, rainy seasons, desertification, and flooding have negatively impacted US troop missions.
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And Thursday's research did not consider other changes in farming that can hasten desertification, such as around Almeria in southern Spain.
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Slowly unfolding disasters brought about by rising sea levels, desertification and droughts result in complex and often gradual patterns of movement.
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The cash will help developing nations cut emissions and adapt to impacts such as desertification, heat waves, floods and rising seas.
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Because the Middle East, particularly Iran, is becoming an environmental disaster area — running out of water, with rising desertification and overpopulation.
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Experts note that the green-wall project still uses tree-cover targets set when scientific understanding of desertification was far less advanced.
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An AP team recently toured the abandoned Tawbeh Prison, a compound that once was a desertification research facility for the Agriculture Ministry.
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Yet despite the vastness of the Sahara and Sahel, it is not impossible to slow down or even halt symptoms of desertification.
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Environmentalist and Nobel Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai spearheaded the Green Belt Movement, which planted millions of trees to combat desertification in Kenya.
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The illegal logging also sparked regional conflicts, contributed to desertification and destroyed a key food source for bees, butterflies and other insects.
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Did he feel that he had helped make viewers more aware of desertification, which many environmentalists fear is on the increase globally?
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Increasing global temperatures have led to the desertification of farmland just as growing populations demand higher food production, making the terrain unlivable.
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He said the country was vulnerable to climate change, such as water shortages, damage to coral reefs, sea level rise and desertification.
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Communities are also being taught how to plant trees to help combat desertification -- which Cavalcante says has a "substantial impact" on Sudan's future.
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In particular, he noted, the group has been polluting water supplies with oil and other chemicals and destroying farmland, leading to further desertification.
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Many animals can't adapt in time to meet the demands of dramatically changing conditions, such as rising temperatures, changes to rainfall, and desertification.
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In the late 19th century Percival Lowell, an American astronomer, persuaded much of the public that the red planet was dying of desertification.
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It's worth noting that desertification—the process of places becoming more dusty, dry, and desert-like over time—is exacerbated by climate change.
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Atmospheric warming, ocean warming, ocean acidification, sea-level rise, deglaciation, desertification, eutrophication—these are just some of the byproducts of our species' success.
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Visiting the Minqin anti-desertification center is eye-opening, as scientists water vegetation to see what grows best — not a real-world situation.
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The bigger issue is how to integrate the talks about biodiversity with those on climate, desertification, forests, wetlands and trade in endangered species.
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Earth was prone to dramatic climate shifts during this period, producing drought, desertification, a drop in sea levels, and the steady encroachment of glaciers.
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Thousands of herders have moved southwards in the last few years to flee spreading desertification in the north, putting pressure on dwindling fertile land.
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Climate change, desertification, the depletion of mineral nutrients, improper use of fertilizer and a lack of infrastructure are compounding the problem, the report found.
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Desertification and climate change mean there is less grass for her goats to graze on, so she increasingly has to buy corn as well.
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Abroad, melting ice, heat waves, reef die-offs and desertification are signs of an international crisis that threatens the world's poorest people the most.
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The Ministry of Agriculture is involved in a variety of programs to combat desertification, including tree planting and building palm leaf fences across dunes.
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That's fueling desertification, which will make the more than 217 million people living in degraded areas more vulnerable to further changes in the climate.
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The volatility unleashed by a warming earth – drought and desertification, rising tides and storm surges, brutal wildfires and erratic growing seasons – is immensely destabilizing.
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China will carry out 50 projects on green development and environmental protection in Africa, focusing on fighting climate change, desertification and wildlife protection, Xi said.
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Rising desertification rates, melting glaciers and drying rivers and lakes threaten the livelihoods of Mongolia's herders, who account for nearly a third of the population.
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By 2045, according to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, some 135 million people could be displaced as a result of land and soil degradation.
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As desertification and access to water become increasingly relevant, the case will be closely watched by other nations in similar disputes over scarce natural resources.
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There are several "conserve the grasslands" programs that use degradation and desertification — assessment methods not mentioned — to remove rural residents, particularly herders, from the land.
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The difference, Thomas says, is that unlike a hoarder's pile, ecosystems perform vital planetary functions, like keeping soil fertile, preventing desertification and absorbing carbon dioxide.
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France announced a raft of 12 non-binding commitments, from a $300 million pledge to fight desertification to accelerating the transition toward a decarbonized economy.
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Like many major climate-based concerns, deforestation and desertification disproportionately affect the world's poor, with more than 75 percent feeling the effects of land degradation directly.
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Although she is a marine ecologist by training, Fawzi found herself becoming increasingly interested in the social instability that this desertification of the marshes had engendered.
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Depending on what factor worries someone the most, they can then figure out what are the most effective actions to, say, slow the spread of desertification.
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Breakneck rates of industrialization and urbanization have left China with profound land and water shortages, as well as rising rates of desertification and serious pollution problems.
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Rising temperatures could trigger an alarming series of knock-on effects for agricultural production, ranging from desertification and land degradation to water stress and soil erosion.
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You can see this when you look at events that are already happening, like land conflicts due to desertification, or various resource conflicts around the world.
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While forests can soak up heat-trapping gases from the atmosphere, desertification and deforestation can amplify warming due to the loss of vegetation cover and soil erosion.
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Farmer-herder clashes have increased partly because Boko Haram and growing desertification in the north have pushed herders toward greener farming areas in the south, analysts said.
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Greece was living as a "debtors' colony", which would eventually lead to its "desertification", Varoufakis told reporters at a central Athens theatre, his black shirt still untucked.
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Desertification and land degradation due to drought affect more than 903,290 hectares (210,210 acres) of arable land in Nigeria every year, according to the Nigerian Meteorological Agency.
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There also are environmentally-forced migrants, who flee deteriorating or untenable environmental conditions like desertification, and environmentally-motivated migrants who are leaving to avoid future anticipated problems.
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Fourth, a fully-funded program of stopping desertification and enhancing water supplies for the people of a new Iran should be planned by America and its allies.
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Higher temperatures promote the degradation of land through drought, desertification and rising seas, and the promotion of wildfires like the ones currently blazing in Alaska, Siberia and Greenland.
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Conservationists tend to be hostile towards pastoralists, sometimes disparaging them as "parasites" who damage the environment, spread disease, cause desertification and poach Africa's wildlife, including elephants and rhinos.
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A long-term drying trend (also known as desertification) is evident in the decreasing levels of Cape Town's parched reservoirs, which are intended to supply the city's water.
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It lists a few projects the defense department has undertaken with partner countries and notes the need to consider how drought and desertification impact overseas bases and missions.
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Each year the prize focuses on one world threat that will impact future generations and this year, it chose the little-recognised challenges of land erosion and desertification.
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Much of northern Senegal bordering on the Sahara Desert has succumbed to desertification, a process where land becomes increasingly arid due to drought and climate shifts, making forests unsustainable.
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To stop desertification, the government has embarked on reforestation projects, planting 2 million trees – mainly acacia – over the past two years, and aiming for 30 million within five years.
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The accord seeks to limit rising temperatures that have been linked to increasing economic damage from desertification, extinctions of animals and plants, heat waves, floods and rising sea levels.
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The government has spent billions of dollars to plant forests to stop the creeping desertification, but some experts have questioned whether it has been effective enough in doing so.
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Related: Giant Billboards Paint a Discordant Portrait of Mongolian Desertification Leonard Suryajaya's Photos Let You See the World Through Outsider's Eyes Why You Should Be Paying Attention to Agriculture Photography
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The purpose was to provide a mighty barrier against the advance of the Sahara, and to reverse the plague of desertification spreading drought, famine and poverty through the Sahel region.
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In Tunisia, a North African country comparable in size to the state of Illinois and home to nearly 11 million people, 75 percent of the land is threatened by desertification.
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Aside from a few pages at the end where Mr Perry writes of African innovations, including ways of reversing desertification, the book does not quite live up to its promise.
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We may be witnessing a slow process of desertification in drier parts of the region, but nearly half the people in Arndt's native state doubt that climate change is real.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A farmer from Burkina Faso who popularized an ancient farming technique to reverse desertification is among the winners of Sweden's "alternative Nobel prize", announced on Monday.
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The parade of horribles foreseen by the company — sea level rise, more intense rain and snow, inundation, hotter temperatures, desertification, agricultural disruption — are now regular features of the nightly news.
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As a result, Triassic Earth was warmer than the modern world, lacked ice caps at its poles, and saw widespread desertification within the supercontinent Pangaea and wetlands along its coast.
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He devised a technique which is now used across Africa's Sahel region to help stop the spread of desertification, restore fertility to the soil and enable people to grow more food.
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Climate change is expected to make the country even more prone to drought, erosion and loss of forested land, exacerbating difficult conditions, according to the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
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A decades-long drought in northern China — home to the bulk of the country's coal production and consumption — is worsening, and the central and local governments are grappling with widespread desertification.
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Tactics like improving food productivity or increasing the carbon content of soil can simultaneously mitigate climate change, help regions adapt to warming, stop desertification, reverse land degradation, and enhance food security.
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Meanwhile, the population explodes — mothers in Niger average seven children — as parents continue to have lots of kids for social security, and each year more fertile land gets eaten by desertification.
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The policies designed to combat climate change are designed to weaken long-term, or future, material concerns about climate change—meaning damage from disasters like hurricanes, flooding, water scarcity, and desertification.
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But the violence has surged this year as advancing desertification, overgrazing and lower rainfall drive the mainly Muslim pastoralists toward more fertile land in Nigeria's predominantly Christian south, farmers and activists say.
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The violence has surged in recent years as advancing desertification, overgrazing and lower rainfall drive the mainly Muslim pastoralists toward more fertile land in Nigeria's predominantly Christian south, analysts and activists say.
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On a smaller scale, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is introducing cisterns to help people harvest and store rainwater in Niger, where desertification claimed 100,000 hectares of land every year.
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Such symbolic offerings will have to count for more as popular concerns grow about sediment building up behind the Three Gorges dam, increasing water extraction and desertification in the Yellow river basin.
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Droughts are likely to be the norm by 2030, leading to land degradation and desertification affecting more than a third of the country's 38 million people, according to the U.N. Development Programme.
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This year, at 87, she ventured to Outer Mongolia, where she visited a nomadic tribe whose rural way of life was disappearing because of climate change and the desertification of the steppes.
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In Sudan, a startup wants to drop Acacia tree seeds from the sky to tackle desertification, and in South Africa, drones are used in agriculture to monitor crop health and detect disease.
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Last year the 3N initiative was credited with halving the number of people suffering from hunger in Niger since 2011 in a U.N.-backed award for the world's best policies to combat desertification.
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Each dry season, hundreds of thousands of cows are herded south from Chad and Sudan in search of fresh vegetation, a yearly practice known as transhumance, now intensified by drought, desertification, and war.
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And that collapse is leading to a rising tide of "economic migrants, interethnic conflicts and extremism," Monique Barbut, who heads the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and guided me in Niger, explained.
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"Grow the food where your animals are and do it in a way that is restorative to the soil, increase drought resistance and reduce propensity for desertification," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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"Grow the food where your animals are and do it in a way that is restorative to the soil, increase drought resistance and reduce propensity for desertification," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Experts say it's going to take a substantial amount to expand adaptation projects to lower temperatures, prevent desertification from intruding on precious habitable and agricultural land and to educate communities on how to adjust.
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China is highly vulnerable to climate change, with 145 million people living in areas at risk of flooding due to rising sea levels, and rampant desertification already occurring in much of the country's northwest.
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Thousands of herdsmen mainly from the Fulani ethnic group have moved southwards in the last few years to flee spreading desertification in the north, putting pressure on dwindling fertile land amid rapid population growth.
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Desertification and conflict across the Sahel have pushed foreign pastoralists deeper into CAR and the Congo as they seek out verdant terrain, especially grasslands away from armed groups who levy taxes on migrating cattle.
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They are among dozens of facilities the Pentagon has tagged as at risk from recurrent flooding, drought, desertification, wildfires or thawing permafrost resulting from shifts in climate that are happening much faster than expected.
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The table below shows that of the 79 military complexes that were included in the study, most are or will within 20 years be vulnerable to recurrent flooding, drought, desertification, wildfires, and thawing permafrost.
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But he says that reversing desertification on a larger scale requires methods tailored to the ecology of each location, and that in some places it might be wiser to let land heal on its own.
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Clashes between herders and farmers are intensifying and growing deadlier in nations like Mali and Nigeria as climate change, bringing extreme weather, droughts and desertification, along with a population boom, has increased conflict over land.
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"Desertification is a complicated issue," sighs Nabil Ben Khatra, coordinator at the Observatory of the Sahara and Sahel, an intergovernmental organization based in Tunis that focuses on issues in arid zones across the African continent.
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Iran has consumed over 70 percent of its ground water and faces the prospect of desertification and loss of cropland, requiring the import of food which no one will want to sell due to sanctions.
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Crumbling infrastructure and runaway housing prices are ultimately inseparable from sprawl and pollution; climate change accelerates rural desertification and contributes to flooding, wreaking havoc on billions of lives, causing unrest and fueling the refugee crisis.
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Because what is destabilizing all of these countries in the Sahel region of Africa and spawning terrorist groups is a cocktail of climate change, desertification — as the Sahara steadily creeps south — population explosions and misgovernance.
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These regions are already threatened by resource overuse and desertification and more vulnerable to extreme weather, including droughts, heat waves and dust storms, according to a recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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U.N. aid chief Stephen O'Brien told the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul this week that Lake Chad is the world's most neglected humanitarian crisis, where poverty and desertification have been compounded by Boko Haram violence.
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The CBD was one of a trio of conventions to come out of the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, along with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification.
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I'm concerned about the growing Salafist threats across Africa and particularly al-Qaeda's ability to co-opt existing ethnic tensions and other rivalries that are driven by climate change, desertification, scarcity of resources and population pressure.
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"Climate change, including increases in frequency and intensity of extremes, has adversely impacted food security and terrestrial ecosystems as well as contributed to desertification and land degradation in many regions," the summary report for policymakers notes.
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In late 2017, a study led by Manoj Joshi, of the University of East Anglia, found that, by 2050, if temperatures rise by two degrees a quarter of the earth will experience serious drought and desertification.
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The IPCC would issue the 1.5C report in 2018 and two other special climate reports in coming years, one on land, desertification and food security and another on oceans and the world's icy areas, he said.
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Just recently residents of Ahwaz in the oil-rich province of Khuzestan in southwest Iran staged a week-long rally demanding Tehran bring an end to its disastrous desertification campaign that has devastated the local economy.
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Rapid flooding and desertification sparked by the continued melting of Greenland and Antarctic ice is also predicted to lead to unfeasible global mass migration, with one in nine people forecast to be on the move by 2050.
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For years, the semi-nomadic, cattle-herding Fulani and more settled farming communities have clashed over land use as lower rainfall, advancing desertification and overgrazing drive the herdsmen toward more fertile land in the south of Nigeria.
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The World Bank has found that up to half of Kyrgyzstan could be affected by desertification by the end of the century, as the region experiences some of the most intense levels of warming on the planet.
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"Tobacco also takes away a lot of nutrients from the soil and requires massive amounts of fertilizer, a process that leads to degradation of the land and desertification, with negative consequences for biodiversity and wildlife," Peruga said.
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Details left vague by the 31-page Paris Agreement include how countries will report and monitor their domestic pledges to curb greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to changes such as more floods, storms, desertification and rising seas.
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The list "includes scoring and weighting of the five climate-related hazards (recurrent flooding, wildfire, drought, desertification, and permafrost thaw) based on the immediacy of the threat," writes undersecretary of Defense for acquisition and sustainment Ellen Lord.
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Mosquito borne diseases like malaria, dengue fever and West Nile virus are likely to proliferate as precipitation and increased flooding occur in some areas, whereas heat stress, and desertification will deprive others of much needed water resources.
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This is likely an early stage, a test run of Europe's ability to deal with the many millions who will almost certainly be forced from their homes by drought, desertification, and rising seas before the century's end.
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Australia was shortlisted for making indigenous people guardians of more than 40 percent of its national reserves and Jordan for backing the sort of traditional farming pioneered by Bedouins to tackle "desertification", which can lead to drought.
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Areas irrigated by Alqueva now stretch almost from the Atlantic coast to the Spanish border, creating what EDIA chief Jose Salema calls "a green barrier to desertification", a phenomenon that threatens swathes of southern and central Europe.
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The accelerating damage could cost the global economy a staggering $23 trillion by 2050 - and rich countries as well as poor will pay the price, said Ibrahim Thiaw, executive secretary of the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification.
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This could drive young people across Africa into joining militant groups, such as Boko Haram, or attempting to cross the Mediterranean to seek work in Europe, said Camila Nordheim-Larsen of the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
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Since the pre-industrial era, land surface air temperature has risen by 603 degrees Celsius, twice as much as the global average temperature (260C), causing more heatwaves, droughts and heavy rain, as well as land degradation and desertification.
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"A war waged on forests by pests is gathering momentum, and besides wood poachers causing deforestation, the pests have become the new drivers of desertification," said Mevion Chagwiza, an environmental activist affiliated to the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association.
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What have you observed of anti-desertification efforts in Minqin, the town on the western end of the Tengger Desert that is under threat of being swallowed by a merger of the Tengger and the Badain Jaran deserts?
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The Sanders campaign also pointed to a 280 report from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which said that in 2400 approximately 2000 million people lived in a dryland that was experiencing desertification, or land degradation.
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The deal recognized climate change as a cause for migration, outlining ways for countries and states to cope with communities that are displaced by natural disasters as well as "slow onset events" like drought, desertification and rising seas.
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Like many other emerging economies, it is seeking funding from wealthy governments to pursue low-carbon development and adapt to climate change impacts such as creeping desertification in the north and rising sea levels affecting its coastal areas.
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The IPCC report found that innovative combinations of Indigenous, local, and scientific knowledge can contribute to overcoming the combined challenges of climate change and desertification, and further cited Indigenous knowledge, land stewardship, and land rights as possible solutions.
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The approach was pioneered by biologist Allan Savory, who argued that rather than reducing the amount of livestock to curb problems like climate change and desertification, animal herds should be cultivated in a way that mimics their ancestral habits.
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It's magnifying heat waves and droughts, and contributing to desertification and declining crop yields — and worse impacts are yet to come if global warming continues unchecked, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's special Climate Change and Land report said.
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Rising temperatures, increasingly erratic rainfall and growing desertification on a continent whose population is set to double to 2.4 billion by 2050 means the need to restore land and create rural jobs is more urgent than ever, experts say.
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"A moderate drinker will most likely not see a detrimental impact on their skin from having a drink once in a while," Kirkpatrick says, but cautions that that excessive drinking is can lead to the desertification of your face.
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While Idso claims that carbon emissions will continue to promote vegetation growth—as they have to some degree—continuing atmospheric buildup of carbon dioxide will also drive desertification, which already afflicts roughly 46 percent of the land in Africa.
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A new report from the United Nations' body in charge of monitoring climate change details how global warming is already playing out on land to negative effect: magnifying heat waves and droughts and contributing to desertification and declining crop yields.
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The family says that they learned that we need animals for their manure and to properly manage soil, and Matthew points to the grasslands around the world that require herd animals to thrive—without them, he says, you get desertification.
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Letter To the Editor: Re "Disappearance of Fertile Land Fuels 'Looming Crisis' in Africa" (front page, July 30): Africa has the highest fertility rate in the world, driving a population boom that has led to desertification, destabilizing land grabs and violence.
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With the use of machines, FAO hopes to restore 18,000 hectares (180 km sq) of degraded land in the region next year, three times the territory restored this year, said Moctar Sacande, international coordinator of the agency's program Action Against Desertification.
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About 60 world leaders will attend Friday's ceremony in New York to open the period for signatures on the Paris Agreement, which is designed to stave off the worst effects of global warming, such as drought, desertification and rising sea levels.
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The 2500 billion euro ($0003 billion) irrigation project on the River Guadiana, begun two decades ago to revive a region at risk of desertification, is only now reaching its initial design capacity and there are plans to expand it further.
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Some 60 million Africans could be forced to leave their homes within five years as their land turns to desert, while two thirds of the continent's arable land could be lost by 2025 due to growing desertification, according to the United Nations.
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Born into a farming family in Anhui province, Yao read an article in the late 1990s about worsening desertification in China: the process of land becoming arid and losing its plant and animal life, affected by climate change and human exploitation of soil.
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It said the root cause of the smog in Beijing was declining wind power, which it said was the result of an increased planting of trees where none had been before, lower atmospheric pressure and desertification in Inner Mongolia, a province north of Beijing.
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DAKAR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A project to plant a wall of trees stretching across Africa aims not only to halt desertification, but also to improve food security, create jobs, and offer young people an alternative to migration and extremism, environmental experts said on Thursday.
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As a result, it is difficult for a government trying to catch up on "practically everything" to begin building wells and roads in the south, where desertification is likely to continue with climate change, according to Harrison Randriarimanana, a special adviser to the president.
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As our foremost national security strategist, in 2017, he described climate change as a threat facing the US. "The effects of a changing climate -- such as increased maritime access to the Arctic, rising sea levels, desertification, among others -- impact our security situation," he wrote.
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It propels sudden-onset disasters like floods and storms and slow-onset disasters like drought and desertification; those disasters contribute to failed crops, famine and overcrowded urban centers; those crises inflame political unrest and worsen the impacts of war, which leads to even more displacement.
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Climate crisis and urbanization The air quality data shows, "clear indications that climate change can directly increase the risk of exposure to air pollution" the report said, noting it impacts air quality in many cities through desertification and increased frequency of forest fires and sandstorms.
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It is a real problem, existing and worsening steadily and raising several complex problems with intertwined economic, environmental and social dimensions, especially in its relation to food security and water, where the rate of desertification is increasing in many world countries and the agricultural sector is deteriorating.
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For example, Schlossberg explains in the book how the high demand for cashmere causes desertification in grasslands — more goats for cashmere also means more goats eating grass — and the ways eating red meat in New York City can lead to pollution in the Gulf of Mexico.
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The brand has also pledged not to use certain animal-derived materials such as leather, horn, skins, silk or down, and has eschewed virgin cashmere because of desertification in Mongolia, where cashmere goats are depleting grasslands, though it plans to introduce recycled cashmere in the fall.
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Led by researchers Samaneh Moafi, Shourideh Molavi and Hannah Meszaros Martin, the exhibition, one part of the Ujazdowski Castle Centre's Plasticity of the Planet show, examines how desertification and deforestation occur in Palestine and Columbia respectively, comparing and contrasting how geopolitical conflicts triangulate into forms of environmental violence too.
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Located at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, these marshes are undergoing a process of desertification as a result of climate change, with the natural resources the Ma'dan people depend on—such as the reeds used to make their iconic mudhif houses—vanishing along with the water.
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Whether the conflict in Darfur is blamed on desertification, or water scarcity as underpinning the ongoing conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, the problem of the equitable distribution of scarce natural resources and the deeper power relations concerning who reaps the benefits of these and at whose expense remains dormant.
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Unlike well-honed environmental documentaries like Gasland and Blackfish that pick a subject and dig in, Before the Flood offers a smorgasbord of issues, breezing through subjects like strip mining, deforestation, rising oceans, tar sands, desertification, coral reef destruction, vanishing glaciers, and more to paint an overwhelmingly dire vision.
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If unanticipated, they could overwhelm government infrastructure and resources, and threaten the social fabric of communities The report is illustrated with examples of climate-related security developments that have already occurred, such as insurgents' exploitation of drought-enhanced desertification in a "food for Jihad" movement in northern Mali during 2015.
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With a price tag of up to $160 billion and $440 billion to develop forest sustainability and combat desertification respectively, it's going to take an orchestrated global effort to make sure our forests, drylands, and other public and private spaces remain viable homes for people, plants, and animals across the globe.
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To take just one example, global emergency response efforts from the United Nations and Red Cross are today almost exclusively focused on catastrophic flooding and hurricane events—they largely ignore events of major heat stress, drought, and desertification that are poised to emerge as key factors of societal collapse in a warming world.
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With the global population projected to reach 11.2 billion by the year 2100, up from 7.6 billion today, there are urgent questions about how we'll feed, clothe, house, and provide medical care for so many people in the face of climate change and its accompanying threats, including sea level rise, ocean acidification, and desertification.
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I would not order a serving of the moss-tasting moringa leaf cake again, no matter its anti-desertification qualities (it made my mouth go appropriately dry), but the fried cassava (a so-called "insurance crop" that grows and keeps under challenging conditions) served with a garlicky desert truffle and chickpea mayonnaise was a winner.
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Such a project would produce food, both for domestic consumption and export; it would produce aviation biofuel and help restore a fuel processing value chain and again a domestic as well as an export product; and it would utilise water in a way that can promote a means of halting desertification and restoring fertility in arid areas.
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As the world figures out ways to deal with worsening extreme weather and slower climate change effects such as sea-level rise and desertification, while speeding up adoption of clean energy, creativity will be needed to make the limited funds available stretch further and prevent losses from spiraling out of control, experts said at this week's U.N. climate talks in Marrakesh.
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The Australian government has announced it will plant 1 billion trees by 2030; work is underway on a "Great Green Wall" to stop the spread of the Sahara by restoring 100 million hectares of degraded land (and sequester 250 million tons of carbon), and China's anti-desertification program, also known as the "Great Green Wall," has planted more than 50 billion trees since the 1970s.
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There are stories to be told about the smog that regularly closes schools, highways and airports in Beijing; the million premature deaths caused by the air pollution; children having to play under the cover of plastic domes; most of the country's water being severely polluted; growing desertification; and the overwhelming effect that China has on climate change and the continuing mass extinction of other species around the world.
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China's desert-taming "green Great Wall" is not as great as it sounds - The Economist, May 16th 28 Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon - Nature, April 22019nd 21990 Simon Lewis' Green New deal for nature - September 22015th 218 Impacts of forestation and deforestation on local temperature across the globe - Sinervo B et al, PLOS One, March 22019th 20173 Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems - August 22017th 25 The Amazon rainforest In August 22019 more than 8,000 fires raged across the Amazon rainforest, bringing it ever closer to the tipping-point at which no human action can stop it shrinking.
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