ScienceReforestation and sustainable land and water management can help combat desertification

CIRAD economist and researcher Serena Ferrari says climate change drives desertification, while economic and political choices such as intensive water use, chemical-dependent farming and the pursuit of ever-higher productivity can deepen pressure on fragile ecosystems. Mongolia, a pastoralist rangeland country facing a harsher climate, brings the ecological and social questions debated at COP17 into sharp focus.

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