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Agriculture & Environment: Desert science

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Overgrazing

Overgrazing of pastures is regarded as the single largest cause of declining land productivity (or land degradation). Government policies to encourage nomadic communities of herders and pastoralists to settle down is one cause of land being overgrazed.

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This gateway has been produced with the support of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research


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