Sentence examples for more desertification from inspiring English sources

She says that if temperatures continue to rise, as is predicted over the next 50 years, the country can expect more desertification, and more tension between traditionally hostile groups.

"The construction of the Great Green Wall across Africa should be the motor for international co-operation, both at the national and at the communal level, with the objective of fighting poverty," André, who is from Senegal, told IPS. "The objective of the project is more than stopping desertification," he added.

Abiotic stress is a major limiting factor for plant growth and food production in many regions of the world and its effects will become more severe as desertification claims more of the world's arable land.

The impacts of drought are likely to become even more pronounced as desertification and global climate change progress around the world.

Loss of biodiversity continues, fish stocks continue to be depleted, desertification claims more and more fertile land, the adverse effects of climate change are already evident, natural disasters are more frequent and more devastating, and developing countries more vulnerable, and air, water and marine pollution continue to rob millions of a decent life.

It has suffered the effects of desertification for more than half a century.

But it hard to see beyond the more immediate factors of desertification, prolonged droughts and land restriction.

-What do you think might be done to address the more general problem of desertification in Africa, or in the world?

"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.

Therefore, based on impact degree of indicators regarding desertification susceptibility, more than 20% of Taybad-Bakharz region shows susceptible and prone area to desertification.

According to the third national survey of grassland resources, about 57% of the total available grassland area in Inner Mongolia suffered moderate or more serious deterioration and desertification, with only 30 70% of natural grassland productivity (Joint Investigation Team of Grassland Ecological Research 2003).