Can only happen in deserts

Is a key driver of climate change

Often involves soil degradation

Requires humid conditions

Overgrazing

Overcultivation

Lack of education regarding farming techniques

All answers are correct

Less than 20% of people have electricity access

Desertification has never been reversed in any areas

Most people cook using gas stoves

Niger is a politically stable nation

North African nomadic peoples

Bands of vegetation designed to prevent wind erosion

Political leadership of Niger

Large drops of rainfall

Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration

Farmer Man New Recruit

Foreign Managed Northern Region

Fallow-band Management Response

A global response to desertification

Funded by the USA

A regional response to desertification

Primarily concerned with reducing carbon emissions

Planting bands of native vegetation between crops

Planting crops close together in bands that are removed during harvest

A process to reduce dryland salinity

Digging bands of pits in which crops are planted to retain moisture

Rising water tables

Additional vegetation

Wind erosion

Lack of irrigation

Soil regenerates more slowly in dryland regions

Dryland regions are the most biodiverse biome on earth

Dryland regions account for a low proportion of global agricultural activity

Drylands have a growing season of above 180 days a year