The following are some of the ways to tackle desertification
- Limiting global warming
- Sustainable land and water management
- Rotational grazing of livestock, boosting soil nutrients by leaving crop residues on the land after harvest, trapping sediments and nutrients that would otherwise be lost through erosion, and planting fast-growing trees to provide shelter from the wind.
- Applying a combination of traditional practices with locally acceptable and locally adapted land use technologies.
- Creating economic opportunities in dry land urban centers and in areas outside of dry lands.
- Unpacking new possibilities for people to earn a living, such as urban growth and infrastructure, could relieve and shift pressures underlying the desertification processes.
- Eleven countries in Sahel-Sahara Africa — Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Mauritania and Senegal — have focused efforts to fight against land degradation and revive native plant life to the landscape. The initiative, managed in part by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), plants a line of trees as a sustainable way of regenerating the parkland and serves as an example for other problematic locations.
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