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What is desertification as per UNCCD?

As per the United Nations Convention for Combating Desertification, desertification is not the natural expansion of existing deserts but the degradation of land in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas.

Desertification is a type of land degradation in drylands in which biological productivity is lost due to natural processes or induced by human activities 

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