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Causes and effects of desertification

Geoff Riley

7th August 2017

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A link here to a comprehensive background article on the causes and effects of desertification.

By 2020, 60 million people from sub-Saharan Africa are expected to migrate because of desertification. Read more here.

A special report on desertification appeared here in the Guardian (July 2017)

Senegal's Great Green Wall combats desertification

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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.