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Desertifying deserts

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NATURE SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 3, Issue 8, Pages 572-575

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NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41893-020-0561-2

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  1. European Research Council [647038]
  2. Generalitat Valenciana [CIDEGENT/2018/041]

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The current definition of desertification excludes hyper-arid zones given their lack of economic activity. However, the 101 million people living there, ongoing land degradation associated with the use of groundwater for intensive agriculture and climate-change-induced aridity call for a revision of this definition.

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