114 Climate Management Issues
• Enriching the soils with nutrients, making them more fertile and
conducive to vegetative growth.
• Planting additional reserves of trees.
THE STRAIGHT FACTS ABOUT DESERTIFICATION
For land managers, it is critical that appropriate, effective, and well-thought-out decisions be
made about the land and its resources. The following facts reect the shocking realities of
desertication facing today’s world:
• Roughly 3.6 billion hectares of the world’s 5.2 billion hectares of dryland used for
agriculture has been degraded by erosional processes.
• One out of every six people is directly affected by desertication.
• Desertication has forced many farmers to abandon farming and look for urban
employment.
• Each yea ...