Sentence examples for desertification rate from inspiring English sources

Detecting, distinguishing and mitigation of the outcomes of desertification and finding main parameters affecting desertification rate in an area is most effective step in action plans of combating desertification (UNCCD, 1994).

If no remedial action is taken, desertification rate will be increasing significantly and threaten sustainable livelihoods at least for people of arid and semi-arid regions of Iran, areas with more than 75% expansion in Iran.

Then came a time period when grazing systems and rotations were introduced only to accelerate the rate of desertification in many cases.

Available models and reliable quantitative simulations are of significant value to predict the spreading rate of desertification and provide an optimal design for sand prevention.

The rate of desertification in the middle and northwest, where there is only pasture, is much higher than that in the east and south, where farmland and pasture exist together.

It does not however; what has been observed is that both contemporary nomadism and sedentary grazing practices both lead to desertification albeit at different rates (Savory 1999).

Soil erosion was decreased but rocky desertification expanded in a higher rate.

Beginning in the latter half of the 20th century, deforestation, overgrazing, and repeated episodes of drought served to greatly speed the rate of naturally occurring desertification, resulting in the encroachment of the desert on the Sahel.

As a result, each family is able to monetize directly its own contribution to mitigating global warming, while also reducing nationwide rates of deforestation and desertification".

Any lingering doubts about its occurrence, as well as humankind's influence, are quickly fading amid new reports of faster-than-expected glacial melting (Overpeck et al. 2006) and unprecedented rates of species loss, deforestation, desertification, and water shortages (Hughes et al. 2003; Jackson et al. 2001; Thomas et al. 2004).

In Africa, desertification is causing the Sahara to spread south at a rate of 30 miles per year, threatening settlements in northern Mauritania.