The Sahel
Region
What is Desertification?
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The Sahel
Region
Geography and
Climate of Sahel
Region
What is it like in the Sahel Region
The Sahel region
has a tropical semiarid climate
The Sahel region
receives
precipitation below
potential
evapotranspiration
But not as low as
Desert climate
The reasons for
desertification in the Sahel?
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Impacts on the People and Environment.
In 2014 the UN stated that
20million people in the Sahel
region were faced by hunger
and 2 billion dollars in food aid
This was because of the
desertification they faced
The loss in the vegetation
caused severe soil erosion
Strategies
adopted by
Sahel Region.
They decide to Plant more
trees – In order to increase
their vegetation
Improve the quality of the
soil – Reduce the number
of grazing numbers