Desertification has been described as “the greatest environmental challenge of our time” and climate change is making it worse. While the term may bring to mind the windswept sand dunes of the Sahara ...

Desertification is a type of land degradation. It occurs when drylands become increasingly arid or desert-like. Desertification doesn’t necessarily mean that these water-scarce regions will transform ...

Desertification is a significant problem for arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid regions of Earth, whereby grasslands and shrublands become a comparatively barren desert as vegetation disappears over ...

A new book asserts that desertification is a meaningless concept and the policies to reverse it are doing more harm than good I started off life as a newspaper journalist, so I appreciate the power of ...

On the World Day to Combat Desertification, DW asks what the commonly used term actually means, why it is such a problem in so many parts of the world, and what can be done to reverse it. The United ...

Due to a decrease in forest coverage and increase in land degradation, drought and desertification are expanding and widening across the globe. Due to recurrent droughts, agricultural developments are ...