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124 relations: Afforestation, African Union, Agroforestry, Argentina, Aridification, Aridity, Axial precession, Axial tilt, Bai Jingying, Barley, Bean, Beijing, Biodiversity, Biodiversity action plan, Blight, Cashmere wool, Clay, Climate change, Climate variability and change, CO2 fertilization effect, Contour trenching, Date palm, Deforestation, Deforestation and climate change, Desert, Desert greening, Developing country, Drought, Droughts in the Sahel, Drylands, Dust storm, Effects of climate change, Encyclopædia Britannica, Environmental migrant, Erg (landform), Erosion control, Evapotranspiration, Extensive farming, Fauna, Flora, Food and Agriculture Organization, Food security, Forestry, French colonial empire, Genetically modified organism, Global Environment Outlook, Goat, Gobi Desert, Grain, Grazing, ... Expand index (74 more) »
Afforestation
Afforestation is the establishment of a forest or stand of trees in an area where there was no recent tree cover.
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African Union
The African Union (AU) is a continental union of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa.
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Agroforestry
Agroforestry (also known as agro-sylviculture or forest farming) is a land use management system that integrates trees with crops or pasture.
See Desertification and Agroforestry
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.
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Aridification
Aridification is the process of a region becoming increasingly arid, or dry.
See Desertification and Aridification
Aridity
Aridity is the condition of a region that severely lacks available water, to the extent of hindering or preventing the growth and development of plant and animal life.
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Axial precession
In astronomy, axial precession is a gravity-induced, slow, and continuous change in the orientation of an astronomical body's rotational axis.
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Axial tilt
In astronomy, axial tilt, also known as obliquity, is the angle between an object's rotational axis and its orbital axis, which is the line perpendicular to its orbital plane; equivalently, it is the angle between its equatorial plane and orbital plane.
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Bai Jingying
Bai Jingying (born 1963) is a Chinese embroiderer from Inner Mongolia.
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Barley
Barley (Hordeum vulgare), a member of the grass family, is a major cereal grain grown in temperate climates globally.
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Bean
A bean is the seed of several plants in the family Fabaceae, which are used as vegetables for human or animal food.
Beijing
Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity (or biological diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth.
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Biodiversity action plan
A biodiversity action plan (BAP) is an internationally recognized program addressing threatened species and habitats and is designed to protect and restore biological systems.
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Blight
Blight is a specific symptom affecting plants in response to infection by a pathogenic organism.
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Cashmere wool
Cashmere wool, usually simply known as cashmere, is a fiber obtained from cashmere goats, pashmina goats, and some other breeds of goat.
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Clay
Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).
Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
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Climate variability and change
Climate variability includes all the variations in the climate that last longer than individual weather events, whereas the term climate change only refers to those variations that persist for a longer period of time, typically decades or more.
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CO2 fertilization effect
The CO2 fertilization effect or carbon fertilization effect causes an increased rate of photosynthesis while limiting leaf transpiration in plants.
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Contour trenching
Contour trenching (a.k.a., Continuous Contour Trench or CCT) is an agricultural technique that can be easily applied in arid sub-Sahara areas to allow for water, and soil conservation, and to increase agricultural production.
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Date palm
Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as the date palm, is a flowering-plant species in the palm family, Arecaceae, cultivated for its edible sweet fruit called dates.
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Deforestation
Deforestation or forest clearance is the removal and destruction of a forest or stand of trees from land that is then converted to non-forest use.
See Desertification and Deforestation
Deforestation and climate change
Deforestation is a primary contributor to climate change, and climate change affects the health of forests.
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Desert
A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems.
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Desert greening
Desert greening is the process of afforestation or revegetation of deserts for ecological restoration (biodiversity), sustainable farming and forestry, but also for reclamation of natural water systems and other ecological systems that support life.
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Developing country
A developing country is a sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.
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Drought
A drought is a period of drier-than-normal conditions.
See Desertification and Drought
Droughts in the Sahel
The Sahel region of Africa has long experienced a series of historic droughts, dating back to at least the 17th century.
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Drylands
Drylands are defined by a scarcity of water.
See Desertification and Drylands
Dust storm
A dust storm, also called a sandstorm, is a meteorological phenomenon common in arid and semi-arid regions.
See Desertification and Dust storm
Effects of climate change
Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Environmental migrant
Environmental migrants are people who are forced to leave their home region due to sudden or long-term changes to their local or regional environment.
See Desertification and Environmental migrant
Erg (landform)
An erg (also sand sea or dune sea, or sand sheet if it lacks dunes) is a broad, flat area of desert covered with wind-swept sand with little or no vegetative cover.
See Desertification and Erg (landform)
Erosion control
Erosion control is the practice of preventing or controlling wind or water erosion in agriculture, land development, coastal areas, river banks and construction.
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Evapotranspiration
Evapotranspiration (ET) refers to the combined processes which move water from the Earth's surface (open water and ice surfaces, bare soil and vegetation) into the atmosphere.
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Extensive farming
Extensive farming or extensive agriculture (as opposed to intensive farming) is an agricultural production system that uses small inputs of labour, fertilizers, and capital, relative to the land area being farmed.
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Fauna
Fauna (faunae or faunas) is all of the animal life present in a particular region or time.
Flora
Flora (floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. The corresponding term for animals is fauna, and for fungi, it is funga.
Food and Agriculture Organization
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsOrganisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'alimentazione e l'agricoltura.
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Food security
Food security is the state of having reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.
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Forestry
Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, planting, using, conserving and repairing forests and woodlands for associated resources for human and environmental benefits.
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French colonial empire
The French colonial empire comprised the overseas colonies, protectorates, and mandate territories that came under French rule from the 16th century onward.
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Genetically modified organism
A genetically modified organism (GMO) is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques.
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Global Environment Outlook
Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is a series of reports that review the state and direction of the global environment, issued periodically by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP).
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Goat
The goat or domestic goat (Capra hircus) is a species of domesticated goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock.
Gobi Desert
The Gobi Desert (Говь) is a large, cold desert and grassland region in northern China and southern Mongolia and is the sixth largest desert in the world.
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Grain
A grain is a small, hard, dry fruit (caryopsis) – with or without an attached hull layer – harvested for human or animal consumption.
Grazing
In agriculture, grazing is a method of animal husbandry whereby domestic livestock are allowed outdoors to free range (roam around) and consume wild vegetations in order to convert the otherwise indigestible (by human gut) cellulose within grass and other forages into meat, milk, wool and other animal products, often on land that is unsuitable for arable farming.
See Desertification and Grazing
Great Green Wall (Africa)
The Great Green Wall or Great Green Wall of the Sahara and the Sahel (Grande Muraille Verte pour le Sahara et le Sahel) is a project adopted by the African Union in 2007, initially conceived as a way to combat desertification in the Sahel region and hold back expansion of the Sahara desert, by planting a wall of trees stretching across the entire Sahel from Djibouti, Djibouti to Dakar, Senegal.
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Great Green Wall (China)
The Great Green Wall, officially known as the Three-North Shelter Forest Program, also known as the Three-North Shelterbelt Program, is a series of human-planted windbreaking forest strips (shelterbelts) in China, designed to hold back the expansion of the Gobi Desert, and provide timber to the local population.
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Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria
Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria are a series of disputes over arable land resources across Nigeria between the mostly-Muslim Fulani herders and the mostly-Christian non-Fulani farmers.
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.
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Human migration
Human migration is the movement of people from one place to another, with intentions of settling, permanently or temporarily, at a new location (geographic region).
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Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.
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Intensive farming
Intensive agriculture, also known as intensive farming (as opposed to extensive farming), conventional, or industrial agriculture, is a type of agriculture, both of crop plants and of animals, with higher levels of input and output per unit of agricultural land area.
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Lake Chad
Lake Chad (Kanuri: Sádǝ) is an endorheic freshwater lake located at the junction of four countries: Nigeria, Niger, Chad, and Cameroon in western and central Africa respectively, with a catchment area of.
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Land change science
Land change science refers to the interdisciplinary study of changes in climate, land use, and land cover.
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Land consumption
Land consumption as part of human resource consumption is the conversion of land with healthy soil and intact habitats into areas for industrial agriculture, traffic (road building) and especially urban human settlements.
See Desertification and Land consumption
Land degradation
Land degradation is a process in which the value of the or biophysical or biochemical environment is affected by a combination of natural or human-induced processes acting upon the land.
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Land reclamation
Land reclamation, often known as reclamation, and also known as land fill (not to be confused with a waste landfill), is the process of creating new land from oceans, seas, riverbeds or lake beds. Desertification and land reclamation are environmental soil science.
See Desertification and Land reclamation
Legume
Legumes are plants in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants.
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Loess Plateau
The Chinese Loess Plateau, or simply the Loess Plateau, is a plateau in north-central China formed of loess, a clastic silt-like sediment formed by the accumulation of wind-blown dust.
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Methodology
In its most common sense, methodology is the study of research methods.
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Mining
Mining is the extraction of valuable geological materials and minerals from the surface of the Earth.
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Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south.
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Mycorrhiza
A mycorrhiza (mycorrhiza, or mycorrhizas) is a symbiotic association between a fungus and a plant.
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Nitrogen
Nitrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol N and atomic number 7.
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North African climate cycles
North African climate cycles have a unique history that can be traced back millions of years.
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Oasification
In hydrology, oasification is the antonym to desertification by soil erosion.
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Ogossagou massacre
On March 23, 2019, several attacks by gunmen killed a reported 160 Fulani herders in central Mali.
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Opuntia
Opuntia, commonly called the prickly pear cactus, is a genus of flowering plants in the cactus family Cactaceae, many known for their flavorful fruit and showy flowers.
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Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States
The Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS, French: Organisation des États d'Afrique, des Caraïbes et du Pacifique) is a group of countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific that was created by the Georgetown Agreement in 1975.
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Overdrafting
Overdrafting is the process of extracting groundwater beyond the equilibrium yield of an aquifer.
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Overexploitation
Overexploitation, also called overharvesting, refers to harvesting a renewable resource to the point of diminishing returns.
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Particulates
Particulates or atmospheric particulate matter (see below for other names) are microscopic particles of solid or liquid matter suspended in the air.
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Population growth
Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a population or dispersed group.
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Poverty
Poverty is a state or condition in which an individual lacks the financial resources and essentials for a certain standard of living.
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Princeton University
Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Reforestation
Reforestation is the practice of restoring previously existing forests and woodlands that have been destroyed or damaged.
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Representative Concentration Pathway
Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) are climate change scenarios to project future greenhouse gas concentrations.
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Rub' al Khali
The Rub' al KhaliOther standardized transliterations include: /. The is the assimilated Arabic definite article,, which can also be transliterated as.
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Sahara
The Sahara is a desert spanning across North Africa.
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Sahel
The Sahel region or Sahelian acacia savanna is a biogeographical region in Africa.
Sand fence
A sand fence or sandbreak, similar to a snow fence, is a barrier used to force windblown, drifting sand to accumulate in a desired place. Desertification and sand fence are environmental soil science.
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Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.
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Sea surface temperature
Sea surface temperature (or ocean surface temperature) is the temperature of ocean water close to the surface.
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Senegal
Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.
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Sheep
Sheep (sheep) or domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are a domesticated, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.
Slum
A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty.
Smallholding
A smallholding or smallholder is a small farm operating under a small-scale agriculture model.
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Soil
Soil, also commonly referred to as earth or dirt, is a mixture of organic matter, minerals, gases, liquids, and organisms that together support the life of plants and soil organisms.
Soil biology
Soil biology is the study of microbial and faunal activity and ecology in soil.
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Soil consolidation
Soil consolidation refers to the mechanical process by which soil changes volume gradually in response to a change in pressure.
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Soil erosion
Soil erosion is the denudation or wearing away of the upper layer of soil.
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Soil fertility
Soil fertility refers to the ability of soil to sustain agricultural plant growth, i.e. to provide plant habitat and result in sustained and consistent yields of high quality.
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Soil moisture
Soil moisture is the water content of the soil.
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Soil regeneration
Soil regeneration, as a particular form of ecological regeneration within the field of restoration ecology, is creating new soil and rejuvenating soil health by: minimizing the loss of topsoil, retaining more carbon than is depleted, boosting biodiversity, and maintaining proper water and nutrient cycling. Desertification and soil regeneration are environmental soil science.
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Soil retrogression and degradation
Soil retrogression and degradation are two regressive evolution processes associated with the loss of equilibrium of a stable soil.
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Soil water (retention)
Soils can process and hold considerable amounts of water.
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Solar irradiance
Solar irradiance is the power per unit area (surface power density) received from the Sun in the form of electromagnetic radiation in the wavelength range of the measuring instrument.
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South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Subsidy
A subsidy or government incentive is a type of government expenditure for individuals and households, as well as businesses with the aim of stabilizing the economy.
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Subsistence agriculture
Subsistence agriculture occurs when farmers grow crops to meet the needs of themselves and their families on smallholdings.
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Succulent plant
In botany, succulent plants, also known as succulents, are plants with parts that are thickened, fleshy, and engorged, usually to retain water in arid climates or soil conditions.
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Sudanese nomadic conflicts
Sudanese nomadic conflicts are non-state conflicts between rival nomadic tribes taking place in the territory of Sudan and, since 2011, South Sudan.
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Sulfate
The sulfate or sulphate ion is a polyatomic anion with the empirical formula.
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Sustainable agriculture
Sustainable agriculture is farming in sustainable ways meeting society's present food and textile needs, without compromising the ability for current or future generations to meet their needs.
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Sustainable Development Goal 15
Sustainable Development Goal 15 (SDG 15 or Global Goal 15) is about "Life on land".
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Tillage
Tillage is the agricultural preparation of soil by mechanical agitation of various types, such as digging, stirring, and overturning.
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United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
The United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law is a free online international law research and training tool.
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United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa (UNCCD) is a Convention to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought through national action programs that incorporate long-term strategies supported by international cooperation and partnership arrangements.
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United Nations Environment Programme
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is responsible for coordinating responses to environmental issues within the United Nations system.
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Vegetation
Vegetation is an assemblage of plant species and the ground cover they provide.
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Vulnerability
Vulnerability refers to "the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally." The understanding of social and environmental vulnerability, as a methodological approach, involves the analysis of the risks and assets of disadvantaged groups, such as the elderly.
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Water scarcity
Water scarcity (closely related to water stress or water crisis) is the lack of fresh water resources to meet the standard water demand.
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West Africa
West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.
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Wildfire
A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation.
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Windbreak
A windbreak (shelterbelt) is a planting usually made up of one or more rows of trees or shrubs planted in such a manner as to provide shelter from the wind and to protect soil from erosion.
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Woodlot
A woodlot is a parcel of a woodland or forest capable of small-scale production of forest products (such as wood fuel, sap for maple syrup, sawlogs, and pulpwood) as well as recreational uses like bird watching, bushwalking, and wildflower appreciation.
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World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought
The World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought is a United Nations observance celebrated each year on 17 June.
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Zaï
Zaï or tassa is a farming technique of digging pits in less permeable soil to catch water and concentrate compost.
References
Also known as Causes of desertification, Countermeasures against desertification, De-desertification, Dedesertification, Desertfication, Desertified, Desertify, Desertisation, Desertization, Prevention of desertification, Reversing desertification.