... countries such as Greece, Spain and Portugal. http://www.the-human-race.com/pages/about_desertification.htm The Sahel region is a semiarid region of north-central Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Since the 1960's, the Sahel (the semi-arid land below the Sahara that stretches from Senegal to Eritrea) has experienced a devastating drought and its population has exploded, compounding the demand for firewood, the main source of cooking fuel. The deforestation, in return has destroyed the land and made desertification worse. http://www.remibenali.com/issues-sahel/index.php The United Nations Environment Program said that over 19 million square miles of the world's land surface are becoming desert. In North Africa the Sahel region is the worst. The effect of desertification in the sahel are very bad because it makes the farmers produce less yield of food to the people in the community, the people and animals dies off because of the lack of food. It also makes the food expensive for the community because there ...

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