Sentences with phrase «desert encroachment»
The positive impact on the local communities can not be underestimated; Employment, trade, provision of water and protection from the community displacement resulting from desert encroachment all combine to help people in need!
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We were working with the Government of Nigeria to complete the first phase of the federal «shelter belt» project, which involves creating a forestry barrier across the north of the country as a buffer to the encroachment of the Sahara desert.
In addition, the encroachment of the world's deserts and the erosion of once fertile farmland continues to exact its toll.
The encroachment of increases in desert terrain around the fringes of the equatorial region is expected to show increases as the warming process reaches its «peak», before the «turn» back to a «glaciation dip».