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Overgrazing, deforestation or cutting of shrubs for firewood
are primary causes of land and wind erosion in drylands,
such in the Sahel, Central Asia, China, ranges of Argentina
Erosion in drylands
and Chile, the Mediterranean and in southern and south-
western US (UNEP, 2006; Ibanez
et al
., 2007; Hoshino
et
al
., 2009).
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