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Title: Air field with grounded airplanes
Date created: 06 Apr 2006
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Source: UNEP

Description: An Air field with grounded airplanes. These planes were used for spraying pesticides and fertilizers in the Gezira Scheme but due to lack of spare parts most of these planes are not air worthy anymore.

Keywords: desertification
 
Title: Geziza Scheme airfield
Date created: 06 Apr 2006
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Source: UNEP

Description: Geziza Scheme airfield.

Keywords: desertification
 
Title: Grazing of stalks of harvested sorghum compartment in the Gezira scheme
Date created: 06 Apr 2006
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Source: UNEP

Description: During the dry season livestock such as cattle, sheep and goats are permitted to graze the stalks of harvested sorghum compartment in the Gezira scheme.

Keywords: desertification
 
Title: Compartment or plots of the Gezira Agricultural Scheme
Date created: 06 Apr 2006
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Source: UNEP

Description: Map showing the compartment or plots of the Gezira Agricultural Scheme. It is to be noted that the Gezira scheme is the largest irrigated agricultural scheme in Africa.

Keywords: desertification
 
Title: Desertification Central Sudan Fieldwork
Date created: 11 Mar 2006
 Owner: UNEP
 Source: UNEP

Description: UNEP and Sudanese experts assessing the extend of desertification during a field mission in central Sudan.

Keywords: desertification
 
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Date created: 06 Jun 2006
 Owner: UNEP
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Description: Water scarcity is a major problem in Darfur. IDPs have to lineup and wait for upto six hours to fill a 4 litter jerry can with water.

Keywords: civil war, desertification, nature conservation, drinking water, rural water supply, general water issues, water resources, water supply, general health issues
 
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Date created: 06 Jun 2006
 Owner: UNEP
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Description: An IDPs Camp in Darfur.

Keywords: internally displaced people, refugees, desertification
 
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Date created: 06 Jun 2006
 Owner: UNEP
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Description: Water scarcity is a major issue in the IDPs camps in Darfur.

Keywords: internally displaced people, refugees, desertification, drinking water, rural water supply, shared water resources, general water issues, water conservation, water resources, water supply
 
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Date created: 06 Jun 2006
 Owner: UNEP
 Source: UNEP

Description: Brick making in an IDP camp

Keywords: forests, economic indicators, wood fuels, desertification, livelihoods
 
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Date created: 06 Jun 2006
 Owner: UNEP
 Source: UNEP

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

Description: A mango garden in El Geneina in West Darfur.

Keywords: agricultural resources, desertification
 
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Date created: 06 Jun 2006
 Owner: UNEP
 Source: UNEP

Description: Fuelwood and grass fodder market in Darfur.

Keywords: deforestation, forest degradation, desertification, livelihoods
 
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: A Beja nomad village in Kassala state
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: Climate change and desertification threaten the livelihoods of millions of Sudanese living on the edge of the dry Sahel belt

Keywords: desertification, deserts, sudano-sahelian region, food security, Kassala, Kassala state, livelihoods, ethnicity
 
Title: Even though 2006 was a relatively good year, this small dam in Western Darfur dried up completely
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: Rain only falls during four months of the year, so surface reserves do not last through the dry season

Keywords: desertification, deserts, precipitation, water resources, water storage, water supply, Western Darfur state
 
Title: The foundations of an abandoned village on the steep hills of the northern limits of the Jebel Marra plateau, Northern Darfur
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: Evidence of abandonment of rural land can be found all along the northern edge of the Sahel

Keywords: desertification, sudano-sahelian region, Jebel Marra Massif, Jebel Marra plateau, Northern Darfur state
 
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: These date palms are submerged by shifting sands
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: Farmers have attempted to hold back the sands by building walls around the trees, but these will eventually be submerged as well

Keywords: agroforestry, agriculture, desertification, deserts, sand dunes
 
Title: A thin tree belt prevents a dune from overwhelming irrigated fields in Northern state
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: agroforestry, irrigation, agriculture, desertification, sand dunes, Northern state
 
Title: The fields' survival is threatened by uncontrolled cutting in the nearby protective tree belt
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: agricultural resources, agroforestry, agriculture, forestry, desertification, sand dunes
 
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: 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: As a result of overgrazing, the topsoil of this rangeland near El Geneina, Western Darfur, is being eroded by wind and water
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: desertification, rangeland management, soil degradation, sudano-sahelian region, El Geneina, Western 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: 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: Encroaching sand dunes in Arji, in Northern state
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: The dunes threaten to smother the narrow strip of arable land along the Nile's flood plain, which sustains thousands of communities

Keywords: agriculture, desertification, sand dunes, Nile river, Nile riverine strip, Northern state
 
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
 
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Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: desertification
 
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Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: desertification
 
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Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: desertification, land degradation
 
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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: 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