Our civilization of the twenty-first century is increasingly compressed by the advance of deserts and seas. Indeed in some parts of the Earth, a remarkable increase in population, the increasing desertification of certain areas, in addition to the expected rise in sea level may be considered as causes of mass migration generating environment.
A known case is undoubtedly that of North Africa.
With the expansion of sub-Saharan desert in the Sahel zone, many millions of people are forced to move both the South and north Africa in search of water.
In 2006, the United Nations Conference has provided that because of the continuous increase of the desert in Tunisia in 2020, up to 60 million people may need to become migrants.
The Sahara is almost pushing the populations of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria to the north towards the Mediterranean. In a desperate attempt to deal with drought and desertification, Morocco has restructured its agriculture, replacing grain crops with orchards and vineyards that require less irrigation.
As is well known the migration flow from Africa in all directions is already in place for many years.
Major problems are also in Somalia, both political and environmental.
addition to a significant overpopulation, an error human has been made and that is an excessive use of pastures, thus destroying the pastoral economy and made many barren parts of the country.
From 2007 onwards, the annual rate of Somali migrants who headed to Yemen, to be hosted, has steadily increased.
In this way, abandoned their problems in Somalia, they have certainly created the water resources in Yemen, which are increasingly scarce.
I mentioned some of the many cases of the African continent, but those who live in Central America is not exempt from these problems.
In Latin America, deserts are expanding and forcing people to move both in Brazil and Mexico. In Brazil, approximately 66 million hectares are affected, largely concentrated in the north-east of the country. While in Mexico, with a much larger share of arid and semi-arid land, degradation of agricultural land now extends more than 59 million hectares.
Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador have thousands of people ready to use Mexico as a gateway to the United States to make a change in their lives. The same
see that Mexican border as a lifeline that daily try to cross.
spoken than 100,000 Mexicans a year who are forced to abandon their lands because the plots are too small, eroded and ground water increasingly scarce, becoming unproductive. The border
unfortunately leaves many victims in the field to cross and to evade police checks must defy the desert.
migrations due to water scarcity are in the north-west of India, western China, Iran, where millions of people have to leave their villages because water tables are now exhausted.
Daily, the media inform us of similar cases around the globe and we can not but hope that the governments concerned can only be politically and economically create preconditions for a life more "human" to the millions of unfortunates.
Source: (Celsias)
A known case is undoubtedly that of North Africa.
With the expansion of sub-Saharan desert in the Sahel zone, many millions of people are forced to move both the South and north Africa in search of water.
In 2006, the United Nations Conference has provided that because of the continuous increase of the desert in Tunisia in 2020, up to 60 million people may need to become migrants.
The Sahara is almost pushing the populations of Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria to the north towards the Mediterranean. In a desperate attempt to deal with drought and desertification, Morocco has restructured its agriculture, replacing grain crops with orchards and vineyards that require less irrigation.
As is well known the migration flow from Africa in all directions is already in place for many years.
Major problems are also in Somalia, both political and environmental.
addition to a significant overpopulation, an error human has been made and that is an excessive use of pastures, thus destroying the pastoral economy and made many barren parts of the country.
From 2007 onwards, the annual rate of Somali migrants who headed to Yemen, to be hosted, has steadily increased.
In this way, abandoned their problems in Somalia, they have certainly created the water resources in Yemen, which are increasingly scarce.
I mentioned some of the many cases of the African continent, but those who live in Central America is not exempt from these problems.
In Latin America, deserts are expanding and forcing people to move both in Brazil and Mexico. In Brazil, approximately 66 million hectares are affected, largely concentrated in the north-east of the country. While in Mexico, with a much larger share of arid and semi-arid land, degradation of agricultural land now extends more than 59 million hectares.
Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador have thousands of people ready to use Mexico as a gateway to the United States to make a change in their lives. The same
see that Mexican border as a lifeline that daily try to cross.
spoken than 100,000 Mexicans a year who are forced to abandon their lands because the plots are too small, eroded and ground water increasingly scarce, becoming unproductive. The border
unfortunately leaves many victims in the field to cross and to evade police checks must defy the desert.
migrations due to water scarcity are in the north-west of India, western China, Iran, where millions of people have to leave their villages because water tables are now exhausted.
Daily, the media inform us of similar cases around the globe and we can not but hope that the governments concerned can only be politically and economically create preconditions for a life more "human" to the millions of unfortunates.
Source: (Celsias)
