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Climate change and land degradation pose a major threat to everyone in the world, but nowhere is the crisis more acute than in the drylands, which are home to more than 2 billion people. It is here, where the soils are especially fragile, vegetation is sparse and the climate is unforgiving, that desertification takes hold. Africa is particularly threatened, since land degradation affects about 46% of the whole continent. |
