This land warming contributes to desertification in several ways. For one, it causes heat stress in vegetation. Global warming also worsens extreme weather events, like droughts and floods ...

The direct causes of desertification can be broadly divided between those relating to how the land is – or isn’t – managed and those relating to the climate. The former includes factors such as ...

These variables, the analysis reveals, drive proximate causes of desertification such as the expansion of cropland and overgrazing, the extension of infrastructure, increased aridity, and wood ...

Desertification cuts on the availability of food and water even as the global population is increasing. It also causes disasters such as sandstorms which wipe out large swathes of habitable lands.

While land degradation can be a natural process, the pace of desertification has accelerated rapidly to reach 30 to 35 times the historical rate, according to the United Nations. The causes of ...

Michel Malagnou, an expert on arid regions at the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome Paradoxically, too much water can also cause desertification. A major factor cited by a ...

The only way to actualise these, he says, is to tackle the root cause of desertification and climate change which is unsustainable land management. In an online chat with Vanguard, Savory speaks ...

A study led by Prof. Tao Hui from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

Rome - Rapid population growth and poverty are among the main causes of the desertification that seriously affects over 100 countries world-wide, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation ...

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Rome - Rapid population growth and poverty are among the main causes of the desertification that seriously affects over 100 countries world-wide, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation ...