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ETHIOPIA DESERTIFICATION

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Desertification in Ethiopia

Topics

1. Physical and human causes

2. areas and number of people affected

3. impacts

4.solutions

physical causes

Impact

soil erosion

sun baked , cracked soil

dry rivers

sandstorms

flash floods

Continued degradation of soil negatively affects the ability of ethiopian farmers to grow crops, results in less grazing land for livestock

Human causes

1 over farming

2 over grazing

3 deforestation

Desertification

Desertification is the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of a drought, deforestation, and inappropriate agriculture

Solutions

the World Bank

The fight against desertification is working

the Great Green Belt

IFDC Recognizes World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

Reversing Desertification with Livestock (Savory)

Areas affected

sources

bibliography

-Found in the highlands of Ethiopia.

-71.5% of land has been desertified.

-what kind of degradation?

-soil organic matter has declined, crop productivity has decreased, soil nutrients have depleted.

http://ethiopiaforums.com/floods-displace-thousands-more-in-ethiopia/2633/

http://www.rala.is/rade/ralareport/Hawando.pdf

http://www.slideshare.net/sarahmarks/sahelcasestudy

http://newsbox.unccd.int/3.5/

http://www.fao.org/docrep/004/ab582e/AB582E03

http://www.helpage.org/blogs/dominika-kronsteiner-1447/ethiopia-drought-impacts-on-livelihoods-health-and-a-whole-way-of-life-303/

http://water.org/country/ethiopia/

http://www.rala.is/rade/ralareport/hawando.pdf

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/AFRICAEXT/0,,contentMDK:23589452~pagePK:146736~piPK:226340~theSitePK:258644,00.html

http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/stopping-desertification-in-africa-with-a-great-green-wall.htm

http://www.ifdc.org/about/ifdc_articles/ifdc-recognizes-world-day-to-combat-desertificatio/

Number of people affected

-between 1972 and 1985, 200,000 people were affected and millions of livestock.

-Population has tripled in size so a higher rate of people affected.

-In Borana, 250,000 people died in the past 14 months --> lack of food, livestock and water.

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