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what is desertification?
desertification is the expanding/increasing of desert.
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how does it effect people?
desertification effects all mankind were they are rich or poor they will be affected by desertification.
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what are the causes of desertification?
desertification has many causes such as over-grazing, over-cultivation, collecting wood, global climate change but mainly poverty.
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pick one cause and describe why desertification is caused by it?
i pick poverty because the sudden rise in population in an undeveloped country such as Burkina Faso cause be in the risk of desertification turning a productive land into an non-productive desert like the Sahara desert.
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name a country which is going through desertification?
Burkina Faso
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