Transcription of DESERTIFICATION - UNCCD
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DESERTIFICATION THE INVISIBLE FRONTLINE To fight or to flee? These are the stark choices Maria, a single mother from the Bangalala midlands of Tanzania, faces repeatedly. Her choice, along with those of families like hers, are felt all over the world. After the rains failed for a few years, some neighbors claimed our trees were drawing too much water from the ground. We cut them down. Our harvests fell. My mother closed her stall at the local market. That is when my father and I moved from the midlands to the Ruvu Mferejini river valley.
Lake Chad - decrease in area 1963, 1973, 1987, 1997 and 2001 Aral Sea - decrease in area 1960, 1990, 2000, and 2010 The livelihoods of the inhabitants in
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