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Also, this summit lacks any of Rio's set-piece treaties, such as the Framework Convention on Climate Change, or the agreements to stop species loss and desertification, that added sparkle to the earlier summit.

The initial reduction in vegetation further reduced rainfall, says Claussen, starting a vicious cycle of desertification that began to accelerate about 4000 years ago.

Carl Sagan et al. in 1979 argued in Science that albedo caused by deforestation and other human-influences, such as fire, caused desertification that had potentially cooled the earth over time.

These policies continued even after independence because of the powerful, widely perceived images of environmental change such as land degradation and desertification that were linked to traditional practices of rangeland use inherited by post-independence governments in Africa (Leach and Mearns 1996).

This includes the extinction of animals that once inhabited the forests and jungles of Vietnam, disrupting communities that depended on them; and - erosion and desertification that will change the environment, contributing to the warming of the planet and dislocation of crop and animal life.

With the global climate change, the aridification and creeping desertification that constitute a worldwide serious threat directly affecting agriculture and crop production, and the growing food demands, desert microorganisms could hold the key for green biotechnology and future applications into soil bioreclamation and plant growth promotion for vulnerable regions across the world.

Due to a complex set of factors (Fig.  5), the practice was abandoned in 1920 s and was reintroduced in 1980 s after realizing its potential against the desertification problem that threatened the region.

Mitigation strategies are crucial for desertification given that once degradation starts, other solutions are extremely expensive or unworkable.

The UN Convention to Combat Desertification reports that desertification and drought shave $42 billion off agricultural production each year.

With prolonged drought comes the risk of desertification, a problem that already affects more than 100 countries, according to the UN Environment Programme.

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