Sentence examples for desertification conditions from inspiring English sources

These disturbances are exacerbated by natural- and human-driven cycles of changes in climate punctuated by drought and desertification conditions.

Soil salinization is a gradual pre-desertification soil condition that reduces agricultural yields and lower the crop production potential of irrigated lands (White 1997).

Fractional vegetation cover (FVC) is an important surface microclimate parameter for characterizing land surface vegetation cover as well as the most effective indicator for assessing desertification and crop growth condition.

In Israel and Egypt, scientists and farmers are developing new methods of countering desertification and growing crops in desert conditions.

"While large-scale climate-induced migration is a gradual phenomenon, communities in Asia and the Pacific are already experiencing the consequences of changing environmental conditions including eroding shorelines, desertification and more frequent severe storms and flooding," the bank said at a workshop last week.

Changing climatic conditions are also driving desertification, reducing access to water and pasture while increasing food insecurity in the Sahel region (Blench 1996).

- He diagnoses normal conditions as deadly pathologies ("the cancer of desertification") then claims to have found a cure for them.

This study aimed to evaluate the potential of poultry processing industry waste to improve the conditions of a degraded soil from a desertification hotspot, contributing to leguminous tree seedlings growth.

In addition, the criteria of vegetation and agriculture show undesirable conditions as well as 85% areas considered desertification-prone area regarding vegetation, where it is 63% for agriculture indicators.

Furthermore, desertification-related scenarios reveal a tendency towards drier climatic conditions in the eastern Mediterranean [ 44].

All three phenomena may trigger extensive soil erosion leading to desertification, magnification of existing or triggering of new groundwater depletion conditions (that may eventually lead to mining) and fresh water reserves pollution.