Sentences with phrase «suffered desertification»
The promotion of organic agriculture through education and training, in countries suffering desertification, could be a key to bringing degraded land back into production.
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Two thirds of the world's poor live in these areas and it is they who are suffering most from the double blow of desertification and climate change as they struggle to eke out a living from the land.
For generations, Vainqueur has suffered from rampantly accelerating desertification that now threatens the subsistence of the entire continent.
Global warming caused the melting of the northern polar ice cap, and tropical storms ravage all areas that didn't suffer from desertification.
«Whether it's drought, land degradation or desertification, women suffer more than others.
In fact, they not only suffer from the consequences of drought or desertification, but also from the fact that in most cases women do not have rights to land,» she says, before sharing some experiences from Africa where plots of degraded land were restored, but because women did not have rights to the land, they could not stake their claim.