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Date created: 06 Jun 2006
Owner: UNEP
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Description: Typical environment of the IDPs Camps.

Keywords: land use, soils, internally displaced people, refugees, land degradation, soil degradation

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Date created: 06 Jun 2006
Owner: UNEP
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Description: Note the branches and leaves of this trees are frequently felled as a source of fodder for livestock and fuelwood for cooking.

Keywords: forests, land use, desertification, deserts, drought, land degradation, soil degradation

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Date created: 06 Jun 2006
Owner: UNEP
Source: UNEP

Description: Stands of trees in Darfur.

Keywords: forests, soils, desertification, deserts, land degradation

Title: Abandoned degraded agricultural land in a former irrigation scheme near Tandelti in Northern Kordofan
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Keywords: agriculture, land degradation, soil degradation, sudano-sahelian region, Northern Kordofan state

Title: Wetlands throughout Sudan face many threats, including dam construction, upstream catchment degradation and oil exploration
Date created: 02 Jul 2007
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Keywords: wetlands, oil, inland waters, land degradation, general water issues, water resources, dams

Title: Habitat destruction and fragmentation is the root cause of biodiversity loss in northern and central Sudan.
Date created: 20 Jun 2007
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Description: The expansion of mechanized agriculture has deforested large areas and removed the shelter belts that host wildlife populations

Keywords: deforestation, agriculture, desertification, land degradation, wildlife conservation

Title: The boundary between the overgrazed sandy rangeland and the threatened rain-fed agricultural zone is quite marked here
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: There is generally no clear edge to the desert

Keywords: agriculture, desertification, deserts, land degradation, rangeland management, soil degradation, food security, Northern Darfur state

Title: Settlements like Malka in Northern Darfur are already on the margins of survival
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: A small reduction in rainfall could suffice to render large parts of the semi-arid desert fringe unviable. Land degradation is clearly visible as large swathes of bare red subsoil

Keywords: desertification, deserts, drought, land degradation, soil degradation, food security, Northern Darfur state, human settlements, livelihoods

Title: Fuelwood vendors in Red Sea state
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: Deforestation is a major cause of land degradation in desert environments. Tree cover is concentrated in seasonal wadis, where is helps retain soil that would otherwise be swept away by wind and flash floods

Keywords: deforestation, forest degradation, forests, forestry, wood fuels, general energy issues, desertification, deserts, land degradation, soil degradation, Red Sea state

Title: This abandoned field within a collapsed irrigation scheme in Khartoum state previously supported low density rangeland
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: It now does not support anything and its remaining topsoil is being blown away

Keywords: irrigation, land use, agriculture, desertification, land degradation, rangeland management, soil degradation, Khartoum state

Title: On the main Nile in Northern state
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: One of the causes of riverbank erosion is the increased frequency of sand dune migration into the Nile, as the rapid influx of sand alters the riverflow, resulting in downstream erosion as well as sediment deposition

Keywords: land degradation, sand dunes, disasters, man-made disasters, natural disasters, Nile river, Northern state, shore erosion

Title: Completely degraded rangeland in Northern Darfur
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: This area immediately outside a large IDP camp has been subject to a combination of long-term overgrazing and fodder gathering, with topsoil largely removed and virtually no remnant vegetation or seed stock

Keywords: internally displaced people, refugees, desertification, land degradation, rangeland management, soil degradation, Northern Darfur state

Title: The role of vegetation in controlling desertification is exemplified in this photograph of degraded rangeland in Khartoum state
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: The clump of grass has been grazed but its roots still retain the underlying soil, while surrounding soil has been removed by wind erosion

Keywords: desertification, deserts, drought, land degradation, rangeland management, soil degradation, Khartoum state

Title: Camels graze in a destroyed village in Western Darfur
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: The trees have been cut down for fuelwood ant to provide the animals with fodder. Fighting over grazing land has been ongoing in Darfur since 1920 at least

Keywords: deforestation, livestock, pasture, land degradation, natural resources, rangeland management, Western Darfur state

Title: A destroyed village and badly eroded land seen from the air in Northern Darfur
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: armed conflicts, military targets, targeted infrastructure, war, desertification, land degradation, rangeland management, soil degradation, Northern Darfur state

Title: Camels graze in a destroyed village in Western Darfur
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: The trees have been cut down for fuelwood and to provide the animals with fodder. Fighting over grazing land has been ongoing in Darfur since 1920 at least

Keywords: deforestation, livestock, pasture, land degradation, rangeland management, Western Darfur state

Title: Low quality degraded rangeland in Northern Darfur
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: To survive in these regions, pastoralists must travel widely across agricultural areas to find water and fodder for their herds, which commonly leads to conflict

Keywords: land use, livestock, pasture, agriculture, environmental risks, land degradation, rangeland management, soil degradation, rural water supply, water supply, Northern Darfur state

Title: Displaced populations settle on the outskirts of existing towns, as here in El Fasher, Northern Darfur
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: The new settlement is distinguished by white plastic sheeting. These new arrivals add to the environmental burden on the surrounding desert environment

Keywords: armed conflicts, environmental risks, internally displaced people, refugees, war, deserts, land degradation, soil degradation, El Fasher, Northern Darfur state, human settlements, population

Title: The zone outside Abu Shouk camp in El Fasher, Northern Darfur, is completely devegetated
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: armed conflicts, environmental risks, internally displaced people, refugees, war, land degradation, soil degradation, Abu Shouk, El Fasher, Northern Darfur state

Title: Women gather fodder 13 km from the camp to sell on the local market
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: Camp residents seeking out livelihoods comb the drylands surrounding the camps

Keywords: livestock, women in agriculture, agriculture, environmental risks, internally displaced people, refugees, land degradation, soil degradation, Darfur, El Geneina, Western Darfur state, livelihoods

Title: The IDP camps are all located on the fringes of town, facing waterless plains
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: Over the last four years, they have gradually become extensions of the town, which is benefiting economically from the associated influx of aid and labour

Keywords: internally displaced people, refugees, land degradation, soil degradation, El Geneina, Western Darfur state, human settlements

Title: The Jebel Berkel archeological site in Northern state - a thin irrigated strip of date palms borders the Nile in the background
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: The Nile has supported agriculture in the Sahara desert for over 5000 years, but upstream dam construction is threatening the existence of this ancient and previously sustainable form of cultivation

Keywords: agricultural resources, agriculture, land degradation, Nile river, Nile riverine strip, Northern state, dams, shore erosion

Title: A typical mechanized agriculture landscape in Dali, Sennar state, with Mount Moya providing relief to otherwise flat topography
Date created: 27 Jun 2007
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Keywords: agriculture, land degradation, soil degradation, Dali, Dali-Mazmum, Sennar state

Title: The tractor has enabled a massive expansion of mechanized agriculture, as here in Gedaref state
Date created: 27 Jun 2007
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Keywords: agriculture, land degradation, soil degradation, Gedaref state

Title: Authorities require that at least 10% of new mechanized agricultural schemes be protected by shelter belts
Date created: 27 Jun 2007
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Description: Implementation of this rule, however, is irregular and problematic

Keywords: agroforestry, agriculture, environmental management, land degradation, laws, policies, standards

Title: Encroaching sands have displaced entire communities, such as the people of the village of Jadallah in Nile state
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: internally displaced people, desertification, deserts, land degradation, sand dunes, food security, Nile state, livelihoods

Title: This badly degraded land near El Azaza maya, now dominated by Calotropis procera, used to be vegetated by Acacia Senegal
Date created: 27 Jun 2007
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Keywords: agricultural resources, agroforestry, agriculture, land degradation, soil degradation

Title: A Mundari tribe cattle camp by the White Nile in Central Equatoria at the start of the wet season in 2006
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: grazing, livestock, pasture, land degradation, Bahr el Jabal, Bahr el Jabal (Central Equatoria) state, Nile river, livelihoods, ethnicity

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Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: desertification, land degradation

Title: Forest resources in the desert and semi-desert northern states are extremely limited and in continual decline
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: deforestation, forest conservation, forest degradation, forests, forestry, desertification, deserts, flora, land degradation

Title: Before it was cleared for mechanized agriculture, this land in Blue Nile state consisted of low rainfall savannah and rangeland
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: deforestation, forest degradation, agriculture, land degradation, rangeland management, Blue Nile state

Title: Wau district, Western Bahr el Ghazal
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: When shifting agriculture becomes unsustainable, forest cover disappears permanently

Keywords: agroforestry, deforestation, forest conservation, forest degradation, forests, land use, agriculture, forestry, land degradation, soil degradation, Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal

Title: A settlement in the semi-desert north of El Fasher, Northern Darfur
Date created: 27 Jun 2007
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Description: The combination of drought, desertification, over-population and over-exploitation has drastically reduced forest cover in Northern Darfur

Keywords: deforestation, forest degradation, forests, forestry, environmental risks, internally displaced people, refugees, land degradation, El Fasher, Northern Darfur state, population

Title: Many areas on the northern edge of the Sahel belt in Sudan are too degraded for large-scale reforestation to be feasible
Date created: 27 Jun 2007
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Description: Natural regeneration over time may be the only option

Keywords: deforestation, forest degradation, forests, forestry, desertification, deserts, drought, land degradation, soil degradation, sudano-sahelian region