Although desertification is a natural process of an ecosystem, it could have been stopped. The people of Nigeria and even many surrounding countries have taken up many processes that are increasing the rate of desertification. Nigerians are poor and live by the easiest ways of life, which is very destructive towards the environment. Instead of looking for long-term processes to help take them out of their poverty, Nigerians over cultivate and overgraze the land they live on. They destroying it and then moving on to ruin a fresh new area, in turn leaving a

"The activities of the government agencies who duty is to keep the physical cleanliness and maintain the prowling aesthetic beauty of Nigeria's mega-cities; and at a slightly higher wavelength, the imperative to clean oil spillage or treat the 'patient-for-long-but-now-agitating' fishing and farming communities of the Niger Delta like human beings."

still occur, irrigation is necessary, but in some cases it can cause even more damage and contribute to the spread of deserts." Salinization and waterlogging occur without adequate drainage. Irrigation water accumulates below ground, raising the water table until the soil is water logged at the level of plant roots and reduces crop yields. Strong evaporation from the surface draws water up from deeper levels. "As water evaporates the mineral salts from underlying rock remain, accumulating in the soil, sometimes high enough to poison the plants above." Working the land until it is exhausted, using it too intensively for animals and poor irrigation are methods practiced by the Nigerians that all help to increase the rate of desertification. As vegetation disappears, there are no plant roots to bind soil together, dried to dust the soil blows away in the wind and the desert spreads.

will continue no matter what they do. They need to be educated and notified that their many methods together are accelerating the process. The government also has unsustainable development and public policy. Even when laws are created to help the people of Nigeria develop better lives and a better environment the government is still inconsistent with its policies. There are also some laws that need to be revised and have a negative effect on the economy, "for example alienated land ownership structure and legislation and wasteful energy policy all add to accelerate of processes already common in dry land." The Nigerian economy is also already poor, and is unable to offset the serious effects of desertification. Often the government must deal with emergency situations when times get really bad, which increases the debt, that the country is in. This burden is reducing the possibility of making a productive investment in order to stop desertification.

were driven from one grazing area to the next." Hundreds of animals were herded and soon Nigerians needed to wander far to find food for the flocks. "Their hoofs pound the dry earth hard so that new shoots can not break through, and cripple trees" . Nigerians traveled with their flocks, and land was being destroyed as they moved over it, the livestock ate anything in their path in their struggle to stay alive, they helped more land to turn into desert. "Governments soon sought to help the nomads by encouraging

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