Open AccessDesertification Combating in the Mauritania
Author(s) -
Y. You,
Jie Zhou,
Yongdong Wang
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
iop conference series. earth and environmental science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1755-1307
pISSN - 1755-1315
DOI - 10.1088/1755-1315/793/1/012014
Subject(s) - desertification , geography , deforestation (computer science) , poverty , land reclamation , desert (philosophy) , environmental protection , agroforestry , political science , ecology , environmental science , archaeology , computer science , law , biology , programming language
The Islamic Republic of Mauritania known as “the desert of the Republic”, is located in the Western Sahara, which accounted for 2/3 land area of it, the remaining belongs to the edge of the desert semi-desert areas. With the purpose of survival, people are forced to deforestation destroyed the grass, excessive land reclamation, pasture overload use, which has formed a “deepening poverty and desertification, exacerbated by desertification poverty” vicious circle. The paper summarizes the present situation of Mauritania on combating desertification, two aspects of causes and problems in desertification from natural factors and human factors were analyzed respectively, characteristics and countermeasures arising in a desertification combating. Desertification has seriously threatened the people’s survival and development, which have become the country’s urgent need to face. The Mauritanian government has taken a series of effective measures on combating desertification, and Mauritania active in communication and collaboration with an international community in desertification, and actively serves as an agency in “the pan-African Great Green Wall” Initiative.