Sentence examples for from the desertification from inspiring English sources

Withdrawal from the desertification convention suggests that Harper is still in a fit of pique.

Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations.

Sand began drifting in from Råbjerg Mile around 1600, the area surrounding the church becoming affected by the desertification which destroyed the fields.

The desertification story has had enormous influence.

"We must confront school failure, unemployment and the desertification of certain districts".

People have been displaced from their homes by natural climate change for tens of thousands of years, and by manmade climate change for millennia (think of the desertification caused in North Africa by Roman grain production).

They now face the erosion of their age-old cultures and the desertification of their lands.

The desertification narrative is today maintained primarily by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).

But not only colonial authorities subscribed to the desertification narrative.

The desertification of the study area is increasing each year; in the desertification map for 1990 2002, there is a decrease in areas of zero and low desertification, and an increase in areas of high and severe desertification.

This Article originally appeared on VICE US.