Usually means: Land degradation in arid areas.
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  1. desertification: Merriam-Webster
  2. desertification: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. desertification: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. desertification: Collins English Dictionary
  5. desertification: Vocabulary.com
  6. Desertification, desertification: Wordnik
  7. desertification: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. desertification: Wiktionary
  9. desertification: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. desertification: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. desertification: Dictionary.com
  12. Desertification: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. desertification: Rhymezone
  14. desertification: FreeDictionary.org
  15. desertification: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. desertification: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. desertification: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. desertification: Encyclopedia

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  1. Desertification: Africa Glossary
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noun:  The process by which a geographic region becomes a desert, resulting from natural changes in climate or by human activity.

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