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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
 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
 
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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