Sentences with phrase «desertification in»

Ge, X., Li, Y., Luloff, A. E., Dong, K., Xiao, J., 2015, Effect of agricultureal economic growth on sandy desertification in Horqin Sandy Land, Ecological Economics, 119, 53 - 63

Earlier in my career I worked on climate change and desertification in Africa, the development of global and national observational climate data sets and the evaluation of climate models.

At any moment you might be about to discuss water salinity in Bangladesh, or the acidification of the ocean, or desertification in sub-Saharan Africa.

Several African countries have recently begun a program to halt desertification in the Sahel, but even in places where the desert isn't advancing, agricultural lands face challenges from chemically intensive

Other empirical data and theoretical models indicate that such interplays between land use and climate change are likely to cause desertification in many other dryland environments that currently support 2 billion people (D'Odorico et al., 2013; Schlesinger et al., 1990).

Hillel, D., and C. Rosenzweig, 2002: Desertification in relation to climate variability and change.

This critical land - use change will enhance aridity and desertification in many of the already water - stressed regions in South America, affecting not only the landscape but also modifying the water cycle and the climate of the region.

Accelerating environmental change — sea - level rise in Bangladesh, say, or desertification in China — could exacerbate rising population pressures in a vicious feedback loop.

Leah, Tamara (2014): Response policies and strategies for intensification processes of land degradation and desertification in the Republic of Moldova.

It contains field reporting on: climate - related problems and threats such as desertification in Nigeria, soil salination in Senegal, and the lack of technical support available to smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe; the range of responses and solutions adopted by farmers and governments; and how livestock - raising communities in the Kenyan county of Turkana are facing up to one of the worst droughts in living memory.

You would hear story after story about clouds and the ongoing threat of increased desertification in the Earth's subtropical zones.

note 6; Asian Development Bank, Technical Assistance to the People's Republic of China For Optimizing Initiatives to Combat Desertification in Gansu Province (Manila, Philippines: June 2001).

She mentions the recent droughts witnessed by France, Canada and successive droughts in the US, and also points out the recent exodus of people from drought and desertification in the global south.

On the other side of the world, in Niger, farmers faced with severe drought and desertification in the 1980s began leaving some emerging acacia tree seedlings in their fields as they prepared the land for crops.

Pope Francis has denounced the «grave ecological crisis» of desertification in the latest stage in his campaign on behalf of the environment.

And by taking a cue from the humble yet noxious tumbleweed, science may be able to gather data about desertification in a unique way.

Sources of Asian dust and role of climate change versus desertification in Asian dust emission.

In the Sub-Sahara countries, the Desert is moving southwards at an annual rate of 0.6 km., putting 35 million people at risk from the effects of desertification in northern Nigeria alone.

We are all witnesses to how deforestation and forest loss have led to desertification in Africa and threatened many other regions of the world — also in Europe.

CNIRD's Director of Programmes, Zakiya Uzoma - Wadada (right) participates in a tree planting exercise to mark World Day to Combat Desertification in Trinidad and Tobago.

20th - Century doubling in dust archived in an Antarctic Peninsula ice core parallels climate change and desertification in South America.

The East Asian summer monsoon and desertification in Eurasia is driven by fluctuating Northern Hemisphere ice volume and global sea level during the Ice Age, as shown in a study published in Nature Communications.

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On the occasion of celebrating the World Day to Combat Desertification in 2017, the Ministry of Local Administration and Environment will hold a workshop in Damascus on 6 July under the theme, «Our Land.

Severe drought is compounding the existing problem of desertification in the drylands.

By the end of the 13th meeting of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Ordos, China, 113 countries had agreed to specify concrete targets with clear indicators, to rehabilitate more land and reverse degradation, which currently affects over a third of the world's land resources.

Soil engineer Newton Jibunoh has created a reality television endurance show, Desert Warriors, to highlight the dangers of desertification in Nigeria and Niger

The formal notice that it was pulling out of the international treaty, officially the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and / or Desertification, Particularly in Africa, was delivered to the United Nations on Monday.

As climate change alters weather patterns — hastening desertification in some places and sopping others — increases the strength of natural disasters — from cyclones to landslides — and raises sea levels world wide, it will make many areas and livelihoods untenable, say the authors.

But he worries that developing countries may object, as it could draw attention away from desertification in their own lands.

The committees would also determine whether or not the clean stoves and wonder bags project had assisted in eradicating desertification in Nigeria for future consideration.

Not exact matches

It resulted in heavy soil erosion, desertification, and climate change.

The promotion of organic agriculture through education and training, in countries suffering desertification, could be a key to bringing degraded land back into production.

Organic matter content is usually higher in organically - managed soils, indicating higher fertility and stability of organic soils as well as moisture retention capacity, which reduce the risk of erosion and desertification.

With intensive agriculture linked to deforestation and desertification, as well a general loss of genetic biodiversity, how can declines in ecosystem be reversed and biodiversity encouraged?

Desertification is caused by overcultivation, overgrazing and deforestation and results in soil exhaustion and soil erosion.

In regions with continental climate, soils are subject to desiccation, meaning climate change will aggravate problems of salinity, erosion, and desertification.

The then Agriculture Minister, Dr. Akinwumi Adesina said Fulani herdsmen were facing a lot of pressure with the increase in population and desertification, adding that the increase in criminality had made livestock production a risky business.

Also in a paper presented by Nurudeen Bello on «Effects of Climate Change in Nigeria,» he stated that the adverse effect of climate change such as temperature rise, erratic ranfall, sandstorm, desertification, low agriculture yields, drying of water body lake Chad basin, gully erosion and constant flooding were daily realities in Nigeria.

Hon. Abubakar Hassan Fulata representing Birniwa / Guri / Kiri - Kasamma federal constituency of Jigawa State has explained that the environmental challenges of desertification, flooding and typher grass which has been threatening the State in the last sixteen years was receiving federal government's attention for the first time.

We wish to conclude by urging government to, as a matter of urgency stop all these companies from further logging of the rosewood trees in northern Ghana that is already grabbling with desertification and other climate change impacts.

Next week, a meeting of UN member states in New York will begin to set out the steps needed to close that science gap and boost international efforts to tackle desertification.

«Desertification can occur anywhere except in a desert,» says Uriel Safriel, a desert ecologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

In a provocative appearance on the video blog Ted Talks, biologist Allan Savory said desertification of the world's grasslands may be releasing more carbon into the atmosphere than burning fossil fuels.

The drought in the region also gave rise to a global discussion and concern for desertification as an emerging environmental problem.

The new study, published online in the journal Geology, paints a more nuanced picture of Central Asia's desertification.

In northwest Africa, where what Werz has called an «arc of tension» runs through Nigeria, Niger, Algeria and Morocco, he said the projected massive population growth combined with small - onset changes brought about by climate change — like sea - level rise along the Niger Delta, the loss of hundreds of villages through desertification and the virtual disappearance of Lake Chad — is bad enough.

Even species that thrived in areas of moderate degradation were struggling to survive here — a sign of impending desertification.

There are projects in place to mitigate these effects, such as planting vegetation in the exposed seabed to prevent desertification.

For instance, satellite imagery could be used to test whether it predicts the collapse of rangelands in the western United States and other places because of invasion of weeds or desertification, he says.