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Desertification - Short introduction into desertification in Africa.
Desertification is Both a Cause and a Consequence of Poverty - Describes how desertification and poverty are related.
What is Desertification? - Defines desertification, and has a world map of where it is a problem.
Desertification - How the reduction of the World's forests causes desertification.
Desertification: Earth's Silent Scourge - Explores the problems of desertification, the warning signs, and how we can reduce it using proper land management.
Wikipedia: Desertification - Encyclopedia article that describes the causes of desertification, and how it can be countered.
Desertification - Describes the prolems that desertification causes to humans, how it's monitored, and how we can fix it.
Desertification: A Threat to the Sahel - Describes how desertification may ruin a lush region of Africa.
Desertification - Describes what causes desertification, and how we can stop it.
Desertification - An article that describes how global warming can lead to desertification.

Wikipedia Articles

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification - The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa is an agreement to combat desertification and mitigate the effects of drought through national action programs that incorporate long-term strategies supported by international cooperation and partnership arrangements.
Desertification - Desertification is the degradation of land in arid, semi arid and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various climatic variations, but primarily from human activities. Current desertification is taking place much faster worldwide than historically and usually arises from the demands of increased populations that settle on the land in order to grow crops and graze animals.
International Year of Deserts and Desertification - The International Year of Deserts and Desertification was a 2006 international observance, declared by the 58/211 resolution of the United Nations General Assembly. The Year's activities spanned the year 2006.
Jornada Basin LTER - Jornada Basin Long Term Ecological Research program, in collaboration with the USDA ARS Jornada Experimental Range, studies the causes and consequences of desertification. Is interested in spatial and temporal variation in desertification dynamics, and how historic legacies, the geomorphic template, transport vectors (wind, water, animals), and environmental drivers (climate, land use, disturbance) interact with the patch structure of the vegetation to determine past, present, and future ecosystem dynamics across scales.
Historic desertification - The Mediterranean and its transition zones to the deserts are characterised by impressive Roman and Byzantine ruins, which are subject of discussion how these magnificient cities could be deserted. It was assumed that population growth or conquest by nomadic tribes led to over-exploitation of the land, leading to soil erosion and irreversible degradation.