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Title: Mobile dune in Northern state
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: deserts, sand dunes, Northern 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: 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: 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