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Desertification: UN experts prescribe global policy overhaul to avoid looming mass migrations
06-27-2007 · EurekAlert!Desertification, exacerbated by climate change, represents "the greatest environmental challenge of our times" and governments must overhaul policy approaches to the issue or face mass migrations of people driven from degraded homelands within a single generation, warns a new analysis from UN University.
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