Describe Difficulties Faced By People Living In The Sahel And Comment On The Extent To Which They Result From Desertification.

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Desertification definition

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Desertification occurs when there is an expansion of the deserts into areas on their margins. The process is long term and results from the worsening of the land and its biological potential – its ability to support plant life.

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Key difficulties faced

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To the need to cut down trees/bushes for a fuel supply in an area where supplies are diminishing

The difficulties of obtaining water in the context of years of drought in the 1970s and 1980s and the famines that resulted;

the need for water for livestock and the importance placed on numbers;

the attempts to grow cash crops;

failing to leave land fallow to recover; soil erosion.

countries that are amongst the poorest in the world, with high rates of population growth

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Not as key

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