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Desertification

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International Fund for Agricultural Development
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Desertification has been called the greatest environmental challenge of our times. It is not the advance of deserts, though it can include the encroachment of sand dunes on land. Rather, it is the persistent degradation of dryland ecosystems by human activities and climactic variations.

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Hazards Drought
Number of pages
4 p.
Publication year
2006

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