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Desertification, when fertile land dries into desert, is a global problem. According to Dr Steffen Bauer, an ecological expert at the Deutsches Institut f\u00fcr Entwicklungspolitik, as much as 40 per cent of the world is \u2018dryland\u2019. And that puts much of it in danger of desertification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Desertification, when fertile land dries into desert, is a global problem. According to Dr Steffen Bauer, an ecological expert at the Deutsches Institut f\u00fcr Entwicklungspolitik, as much as 40 per cent of the world is \u2018dryland\u2019. 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