Dry areas make up more than 41% of land around the globe and are home to more than two billion people. Despite climate change and other challenges, there are ways to combat land degradation.
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Articles on Sahel
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Many mammals depend on large areas and trans-boundary conservation for their survival. When this is obstructed it can have a catastrophic impact on animal populations.
Migrants crossing Libya to reach Europe increasingly face violence and human traffickers.
Poverty and conflict mean the nation is struggling to deal with rising temperatures.
Gold is both a blessing and a curse for rural Niger.
The Sahel region of Africa is a 3,860-kilometre arc-like land mass lying to the immediate south of the Sahara Desert and stretching east-west across the breadth of the African continent. A largely semi-arid…
Some areas expecting big environmental changes already have large, vulnerable populations.
The final weeks of 2016 would need to be the coldest of the 21st century to avoid it becoming the hottest year.
The US and France have bolstered military strength across vast areas of Africa in response to Islamist threat. But the interest is also driven by Western strategic calculations
Burkina Faso is on its way to becoming a healthy and stable democracy – and that’s got West Africa’s jihadists riled.
There are several relatively unknown eco-friendly locations in Africa that adventure-seeking tourists would find delightful.
Field trials in Senegal show native shrubs can access deep-soil water and make it available to adjacent crops – a technique that could alleviate drought conditions in marginal lands around the world.
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Lecturer in Political Economy, SOAS, University of London
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Doctoral Research Fellow, Conflict, Violence, & Terrorism Research Centre, Royal Holloway University of London
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Senior lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Leeds Beckett University
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Doctoral candidate, Regent University
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Research associate, Curtin University
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President, Dickinson College
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Lecturer, Université des sciences juridiques et politiques de Bamako
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Under-Secretary-General for Research, Evaluation and Foresight - ORGANISATION OF EDUCATIONAL COOPERATION, Dickinson College
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Head of Data & Analytics and Senior Researcher for the Small Arms Survey, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
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Research Fellow and PhD Candidate at University of Oxford, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
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DPhil-Candidate in International Relations, University of Oxford
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Extraordinary Lecturer, University of Pretoria
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DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography, Director of Food, Agriculture & Society Program, Macalester College
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Board Chair, Global EverGreening Alliance & Distinguished Senior Fellow, World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Senior Researcher and Coordinator of the Security Assessment in North Africa project at the Small Arms Survey, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
