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Participate in our Public Call for Nominations for the NDRD Council In recent decades, land degradation in more arid regions of the world such as the Arabian Peninsula has become a serious concern. The threats, manifest as both desertification and land degradation in general, are caused primarily by anthropogenic activities, such as deforestation, excessive cultivation due to inappropriate agricultural projects, proliferation of invasive aliens, overgrazing, and other forms of land resource exploitation such as and oil and gas surveys. Inadequate irrigation practices, persecution and socio-economic changes, the latter apparent in the decline of traditional farming and land-use practices exacerbate this process severely ...
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Occupying more than four-tenths (41%) of the world’s land area, drylands are home to over two billion people, among them some of the world’s most impoverished, dependant on the environment for basic needs. Indeed, half of all people living in poverty are in drylands.
Growing desertification worldwide threatens to swell by millions the number of poor forced to seek new homes and livelihoods. According to the "Natural Heritage Institute" there is a strong correlation between migration, poverty and environmental degradation. The natural resources in and around the cities and refugee camps, in which human beings have settled, have already been over utilized. In addition, difficult living conditions as well as the absence of cultural identity undermine social stability.
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"…. resource depletion as a result of environmental change and population growth is only a component of a much more complex situation where social factors intersect with natural phenomena."
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