The term "land desertification" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this term when you are discussing the process of land degradation when a land area becomes increasingly arid and unsuitable for sustaining life. For example, "The land desertification of the savannah has been a serious challenge for conservation efforts."
Models were developed using the following five factors: reciprocal of fractal dimension (FD), isolation (FI), fragmentation (FN), sensitivity of land desertification (SD), and sensitivity of soil erosion (SW).
In western China, an ecologically fragile area susceptible to soils erosion, subsidence leads to increased soil erosion, depletion of water resources, lowering of ground water table, reduction in vegetation area, and land desertification.
In western China, a susceptible soil erosion and ecologically fragile area, mining subsidence has caused many environmental issues, such as soil erosion exacerbation, water resources deletion, ground water decline, vegetation cover reduction, land desertification.
Zhang' review focused on natural environmental changes, including climate change, the changes in sea and land, desertification, changes in flora and fauna, hydrological changes, and the history of disasters, all of which are the subject of historical physical geography.
Land desertification and land degradation affect the quality of land, the major capital input in farming.
Fodder production could provide much high-quality forage for livestock production, enhance vegetation coverage, and reduce land desertification.
It recommended that FAO, and encouraged the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), UNCCD and other partners, provide technical support to LFCCs for the sustainable management of forests and trees outside forests, including the rehabilitation of degraded lands, desertification control and strengthening national planning and institutional frameworks.
Syria and Jordan are predicted to lose 30% of their fertile land to desertification if measures are not urgently taken to combat desertification and land degradation.
It includes those at the sharp end of new enclosures, taxes, desperate fossil fuel corporations, biofuel land grabs, desertification, starvation food prices, political despotism, water theft, military occupation, and industrial zone and sweat shop misery.
Degradation of soils and sensitivity of land to desertification are intensified in last decades in the Mediterranean region producing heterogeneous spatial patterns determined by the interplay of factors such as climate, land-use changes, and human pressure.
All the stories are sobering, but many are also surprisingly hopeful: the Netherlands' bold 200-year plan to save the country from a devastating sea-level rise; the utterly unexpected success of farmers in Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso in reclaiming huge areas of arable land from desertification; China's research on large-scale ecological agriculture.
