The Sahel

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What is this case study looking for?
An area suffering from desertification
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Where is this located?
A semi arid region in North-Central Africa, south of the Sahara desert, includes Mali, Niger, Somalia and Chad
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What are the physical causes of desertification?
Drought for the past 30 years, e.g. Mali: wettest season: 348mm rainfall
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What are the human causes of desertification?
Climate change (global warming for past 40 years), soil degradation, increasing population, land mismanagement (no bush fallow system)
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What are the effects of desertification?
40% people undernourished, 3.3million people including 800k children at risk of food shortages, 2004-locust plague in Mali and Niger, famine, death, migration, dependence on aid
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How is desertification being managed locally and sustainably?
Building bunds, tree planting schemes, Upesi stoves (need less firewood)
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How is desertification being managed with international aid?
£270k to support 14k malnourished children for 6 months, opened 245 cereal banks
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