DESERTIFICATION

Science

Weather

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: DESERTIFICATION

Crosswords: DESERTIFICATION

Books

• The Encroaching Desert: The Human Consequences of Desertification (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Understanding Drought and Desertification (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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Desertification near BOPAgricultureBirds of Prey National Conservation AreaOwyhee Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: Unknown.

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Economic History

Niger

Drought cycles, desertification, a 3.4% population growth rate and the drop in world demand for uranium have undercut an already marginal economy. (references)

China

Government officials encourage farmers to plant forage grasses, like alfalfa, as a means to feed livestock while also preventing erosion and desertification. (references)

Algeria

Soil erosion from overgrazing and other poor farming practices; desertification; dumping of raw sewage, petroleum refining wastes, and other industrial effluents is leading to the pollution of rivers and coastal waters; the Mediterranean Sea, in particular, is becoming polluted from oil wastes, soil erosion, and fertilizer runoff; there are inadequate supplies of potable water. (references)

Minorities

Chad

However, recent migrations in response to urbanization and desertification made a north-south breakdown too simplistic. (references)

Mauritania

A number of accounts indicate that redistribution of southern farmland to Moors since the acceleration of desertification in the 1970's has contributed to tensions between Moors and southern-based ethnic groups. (references)

Mauritania

The acceleration of desertification during the 1970's that destroyed much of the traditional economic basis of Moorish society, and an upsurge of Arab nationalism among White Moors during the 1980's, contributed to ethnic violence precipitated by a dispute with Senegal during 1989-91; this violence entailed the expulsion or flight of many non-Moors living in the south and occupation of much of their land by Moors, including Black Moors. (references)

Political Economy

Mauritania

Drought, desertification, and insect infestation have contributed to rapid urbanization, extensive unemployment, pervasive poverty, and a burdensome foreign debt. (references)

Mali

Desertification, deforestation, soil degradation, and social limitations, including a current estimated literacy rate of approximately 30 percent (48 percent for men and 12 percent for women) and a high population growth rate (2.8 percent), contributed to poverty. (references)

Worker Rights

Mauritania

The south has suffered less from desertification, and some reports identify it as the region in which vestiges and consequences of slavery persist most strongly. (references)

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Expression using "DESERTIFICATION": combating desertification. Additional references.

Danish

De Forenede Nationers konvention om bekæmpelse af ørkendannelse i de lande,der er ramt af alvorlig tørke og/eller ørkendannelse,særlig i Afrika (particularly in Africa, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification), bekæmpelse af ørkendannelse (combating desertification). (various references)

Dutch

Woestijnverdrag (particularly in Africa, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification), VN-woestijnconferentie (United Nations Conference on Desertification (Aug.29 - Sept.9), Verdrag van de Verenigde Naties ter bestrijding van woestijnvorming in de landen die te kampen hebben met ernstige droogte en/of woestijnvorming,in het bijzonder in Afrika (particularly in Africa, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification), Verdrag van de Vereingde Naties ter bestrijding van woestijnvorming in de landen die te kampen hebben met ernstige droogte en/of woestijnvorming,in het bijzonder in Afrika (particularly in Africa, United Nations Convention to combat desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification), stoppen van de woestijngroei (combating desertification), conferentie over woestijnvorming (United Nations Conference on Desertification (Aug.29 - Sept.9), bestrijden van woestijnvorming (combating desertification). (various references)

Finnish

aavikoitumisen estämiseen (combating desertification). (various references)

French

lutte contre la désertification (combating desertification), Convention sur la lutte contre la désertification (Convention to Combat Desertification), Convention des Nations unies sur la lutte contre la désertification dans les pays gravement touchés par la sécheresse et/ou la désertification,en particulier en Afrique (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification), Convention des Nations unies sur la lutte contre la désertification dans les pays gravement touchés par la sécheresse et/ ou la désertification,en particulier en Afrique (United Nations Convention to combat desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification), Conférence des Nations Unies sur la Désertification (United Nations Conference on Desertification (Aug.29 - Sept.9), CLD (Convention to Combat Desertification). (various references)

German

Wüsten-Konvention (particularly in Africa, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification), Bekämpfung der Wüstenbildung (combating desertification), Übereinkommen der Vereinten Nationen zur Bekämpfung der Wüstenbildung in den von Dürre und/oder Wüstenbildung schwer betroffenen Ländern,insbesondere in Afrika (particularly in Africa, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification), Übereinkommen der Vereinten Nationen zur Bekämpfung der Wüstenbildung in den von Dürre and/oder Wüstenbildung schwer betroffenen Ländern,insbesondere in Afrika (particularly in Africa, United Nations Convention to combat desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification). (various references)

Greek 

Σύμβαση των Ηνωμένων Εθνών για την καταπολέμηση της απερήμωσης στις χώρες εκείνες που αντιμετωπίζουν σοβαρή ξηρασία ή/και απερήμωση,ιδιαί (United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification). (various references)

Italian

lotta contro la desertificazione (combating desertification), Convenzione delle Nazioni unite contro la desertificazione nei paesi gravemente colpiti dalla siccit� e/o dalla desertificazione,in particolare in Africa (particularly in Africa, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification). (various references)

Pig Latin

esertificationday

Portuguese

Convenção das Nações Unidas de combate � desertificação nos paises afectados por seca grave e/ou desertificação,particularmente em África (particularly in Africa, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification), Convenção das Nações Unidas de combate a desertificação nos países afectados por seca grave e/ou desertificação,particularmente em África (particularly in Africa, United Nations Convention to combat desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification), combate � desertificação (combating desertification). (various references)

Russian 

опустынивание. (various references)

Spanish

lucha contra la desertificación (combating desertification), Convención de las Naciones Unidas de lucha contra la desertificación en los países afectados por sequia grave o desertificación,en particular en África (particularly in Africa, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification), Convención de las Naciones Unidas de lucha contra la desertificación en los países afectados por sequía grave o desertificación,en particular en África (particularly in Africa, United Nations Convention to combat desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification). (various references)

Swedish

Förenta nationernas konvention för bekämpning av ökenspridning (particularly in Africa, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in those countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification), bekämpning av ökenspridning (combating desertification). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "DESERTIFICATION": desertifications. (additional references)

Words ending with "DESERTIFICATION": antidesertification. (additional references)

Misspellings

"DESERTIFICATION" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desertfication, dessertification, esterification, recertification. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: esterification.

-3 letters: deifications, dictionaries, disorientate, edifications, reifications.

-4 letters: certainties, considerate, creationist, defecations, deification, denitrifies, dentifrices, desecration, detractions, distraction, edification, federations, fictioneers, identifiers, rancidities, recitations, reification, reinitiated, reinitiates, retinitides, transfected.

-5 letters: acidifiers, acridities, ancestored, anecdotist, antierotic, atrocities, carnotites, certainest, contrasted, coresident, deaconries, defecation, defections, deficients, dentifrice, detections, detraction, detritions, dictations, dieticians, dietitians, directions, discretion, distincter.

+1 letter: decertifications, desertifications.

+4 letters: antidesertification, overidentifications.

+5 letters: cytodifferentiations.