drylands

Africa is extremely dry, in both percentage terms (43 percent of the land area is classified as drylands), and in total available moisture (5 000 m3 per capita per year).

Africa's renaissance for the environment~ land 2009

Turning to another subject, the UNDP said soil degradation affected nearly two billion hectares and damaged the livelihoods of up to one billion people who lived on "drylands".

ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

Significant fractions of coastal (9%) and mountain (33%) systems are classified as drylands, highlighting the need for integrated land and water management that gives due consid­eration to dryland perspectives (C26. 1.2.,

Ecosystems and Human Well-being~ Desertification Synthesis~ Key Questions on Desertification in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2008

If temperatures increase and droughts intensify in Africa's drylands, as expected, their animals will be more at risk and conventional farming across vast areas could become impossible.

Uganda: nomads face an attack on their way of life 2011

In east Africa, an estimated 70 million people live in the drylands, many of them herders.

Kenyan herders reap dividends from livestock insurance 2011

(He used the expression “cangaceiro”, meaning a specific type of bandit leader operating in the drylands of the Northeast of Brazil).

Global Voices in English » Brazil: On the meaning of “Minorities with a majority complex” 2009

In poor farm villages of the drylands, children wear rubber flip-flops or often-repaired hand-me-down shoes.

Village Dreamers 2009

In poor farm villages of the drylands, children wear rubber flip-flops or often-repaired hand-me-down shoes.

Village Dreamers 2009

Working on deforestation, desertification, food security, biodiversity protection, adaptation to climate change, ecological justice and community rights of traditional groups, later on also on the development of alternative livelihoods in drylands by promotion of handcrafts.

Contributor: Ingrid Hartmann 2010

No such banded systems have been identified in America, but I was curious if more subtle patterning could be happening in southwestern drylands which share many of the same ecosystem characteristics and display threshold response to changes in precipitation.

hughstimson.org » Blog Archive » Vegetation Self-Patterning Presentation 2008

Drylands, which cover more than 35 percent of the Earth’s land, are places that get so little rain or snow, it doesn’t replace the amount that evaporates away.

The biocrust conundrum Maya L. Kapoor 2023