The recent years-long drought may have tipped parts of the Northern Cape towards an irreversible dust bowl, following decades of heavy grazing and mining. Farmers are holding the line against a surge ...

The Sahel is a narrow belt of land which lies immediately to the south of the Sahara Desert and which extends across most of Africa. The main causes of desertification include: ...

These issues of gradual desertification—where more of the ... 5,000 miles (8,000km) across Africa's Sahel region. In Téssékéré, bare, scattered plots of fenced-off land covered in cracked ...

In the Sahel and West Africa, farming is key for survival ... In Mali, almost all land is at risk from desertification. The Sahara moves south 48 kilometers every year, making the land worse.

The World Bank-funded Agro-Climatic Resilience in Semi-Arid Landscapes (ACReSAL) project has revitalized 160,000 hectares of ...