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Desertification was defined as “land degradation in arid, semi-arid or sub-humid dry areas resulting from various factors including climatic variations and human activities” in the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). About two-thirds of the countries of the world, one-fifth of the global population and one-fourth of the land of the earth are now affected by desertification with a direct economic loss about US$ 42.3 billion every year. Desertification has become a source of poverty and a constraint to socioeconomic sustainable development. Combating desertification, ecological improvement and sustainable development is an imperative hard task for the world.
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Wang, S., Ma, Y., Hou, Q., Wang, Y. (2007). Coping Strategies with Desertification in China. In: Sivakumar, M.V.K., Motha, R.P. (eds) Managing Weather and Climate Risks in Agriculture. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72746-0_18
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