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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Farming is leading to the desertification of large areas of the planet.
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If desertification continues to spread, the dust bowl will not only undermine the economy but also trigger a huge migration eastward.
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In many instances this is too late to obviate desertification and soil erosion.
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One of the first environmental hazards to be studied was that of desertification .
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There is considerable dissension in the literature as to what precisely constitutes desertification .
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There may be, too, a sottovoce challenge to the received wisdom that it is people who cause desertification .
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Thus we do not intend to provide evidence here of frightening rates of soil loss and desertification throughout the world.