Sentences with phrase «more desertification»

The more climate change there is, the more desertification there is, the more flooding there is, the greater the problems we're going to have with not enough food and water around the world.

Not exact matches

We know that desertification has necessitated more movement of cows for grazing towards the south, but we need to have a way of balancing the two.

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

To reaffirm the progress made at the summit, more than 80 Ministers from around the world issued the Ordos Declaration urging countries to step up efforts on all fronts to tackle desertification — one of the planet's most pressing global challenges.

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.

The campaign symbol, a green handkerchief which represents the idea of bringing more green into our world by combating desertification and land degradation, has been prominently featured in online campaigns and at live events.

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The Greenbelt movement, which she founded in 1977 and which she lead for more than 30 years, thus combined the war against poverty, the fight against corruption, teaching as well as reforestation and the fight against desertification.

As housing communities devour more and more land and resources each year the outcome is equivalent to the very process of desertification.

Because the amount of arable land is limited and what is left is being lost to urbanization, salinization, and desertification, it no longer possible to simply open up more undeveloped land for cultivation to meet production needs.

There's been a lot of talk lately about the food crisis, and particularly linking it to growing crops for biofuels (a highly inefficient process which seems to drive prices up, particularly in US policy), but Frances More Lappe argued in her books several years ago that there is, in fact, enough food on the planet to feed us all, but localized political troubles (grain rotting in Haitian ports), increasing desertification, food waste, and problems with global supply chains are better explanations for why so many go hungry.

Continued greenhouse gas emissions are likely to be associated with changes in rainfall patterns, desertification, more frequent storms and rises in sea level, all of which have implications for human movement.

E.g., human - caused albedo variations from desertification, and to some extent tropical deforestation, were connected with past global climate changes by Sagan et al. (1979); a pioneering model confirming «the long - held idea that the surface vegetation... is an important factor in the Earth's climate» was Shukla and Mintz (1982); Amazon Basin: Salati and Vose (1984); more recently, see Kutzbach et al. (1996).

«Whether it's drought, land degradation or desertification, women suffer more than others.

Plants make more effective use of water when CO2 rises which reduces desertification.

With increasing land degradation, desertification and soil erosion hitting hard at the local level and poor women and men totally reliant on natural resources for their survival, the need for adaptation support could not be more urgent.

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(Both cause plant cover to decrease which causes soil moisture decreases often making storms less frequent, less regular, less predictable and more intense, further decreasing plant cover, reducing or killing crops, eroding soil (leading to decreased fertility, water pollution, etc.) and spiraling down into desertification and the creation of wasteland from what had been a fertile, verdant landscape.

«Land degradation and desertification may be regarded as the silent crisis of the world, a genuine threat to the future of humankind,» Arnalds said.Although food production has more or less kept pace with population growth by increasing 50 percent between 1980 and 2000, it is unclear whether we'll have enough food to feed the estimated three billion more mouths in 2050.

«half the world is vulnerable to social instability and violence due to rising food and energy prices, failing states, falling water tables, climate change, decreasing water - food - energy supply per person, desertification and increasing migrations due to political, environmental and economic conditions... With nearly three billion people making $ 2 or less per day, long - term global social conflict seems inevitable without more serious food policies, useful scientific breakthroughs and dietary changes».

Via Eureka Alert Learn More About Land Degradation Agricultural Land Degradation Increasing, Affecting New Areas: FAO Report The Dirt on Soil Erosion China Being Submerged in Sand: Desertification Spreads 1,300 Square Miles Per Year Biofuels, Food, Population Growth to Put Increasing Pressure on Forests Desert Engulfing Nouakchott in Mauritania UN Publishes Satellite Atlas of Africa's Changing Environment

Take what you have learned from the scientists and imagine the world in a few decades from now, a few degrees warmer, with all the extreme weather, desertification, ocean acidification, mass migration, conflict over energy supplies, fresh water and so on, that have already begun, and that will only get worse the more we destabilize our climate system with greenhouse gases.

OSLO, October 16 — More than 100 experts from 52 countries met in Oslo on Monday 16 October to begin work on the IPCC's special report on 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.