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What are the main threats to the Sahel?
One threat to the Sahel is that people are slashing and burning trees for to clear land for their annual agriculture.
Which land locked country is in the Sahel?
Sudan
What is the name of the wide area of dry land located along the southern edge of the Sahara?
Sahel
What has caused the sahel to expand in recent years?
The expansion of the Sahel region in recent years has primarily been driven by climate change, leading to increased temperatures and altered rainfall patterns. Deforestation, land degradation, and unsustainable agricultural practices have exacerbated these climatic changes, resulting in desertification and a shift in the ecological boundaries. Additionally, socio-economic factors, such as population growth and migration, have intensified pressure on land resources, further contributing to the Sahel's expansion.
What is on similar thing about the Sahel and the savanna?
one similarite is that they both has a time where it liquid encluded
What changes in the Sahel are affecting the nomadic people?
Im doing this in geography for my coursework and basically the nomadic people are the ones changing the Sahel by doing a process called slash and burn. Slash and burn is when the tribe uses the land and all its resources and then just moves on to a new peice of land. The land before is left baron and dry, this is the process of desertification. hope i could help lol :) Hannah,14
What land is south of the Sahara?
The Sahel is located just to the south of the Sahara.
What is the type of subsistence farming found along the sahel and east Africa due to what?
Land.
What does sahel mean in Africa?
A Sahel is a strip of land that divides the desert from the wetter areas. A Sahel has a steppe climate which means rainfall varies there from year to year. it is also quite dry, but does provide some vegetation for animals to graze. A sahel is the fringe of the desert. A desert can spread and grow because of overgrazing and deforestation. The sahel is the edge which is spreading.
What is like in the Sahel?
The Sahel is a zone of transition between the Sahara desert in the North and the Sudanian Savannas in the south of Northern Africa. Essentially a strip of land running across Africa just south of the Sahara.The Sahel is mostly covered in grassland and savanna, with areas of woodland and shrub land. It is fairly dry but suitable for large populations of grazing herbivores.
What are the affects of the Sahel Desert after desertification?
The Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition in Africa between the Sahara desert to the north and the Sudanian Savanna to the south. It is arid land but not a true desert.
Name three things that have changed parts of the sahel from marginal land into barren wasteland?
climate, increased population and continuous drought
