This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. This means that these growing populations, by human rights and equity standards, should consume more. Prospects for the elimination of mass starvation by political action, Political Geography, 62:2008. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. She tells Carbon Brief: Climate change affects the frequency and magnitude of extreme events like droughts and floods. The demographic characteristics of an area may facilitate this change by producing a more flammable mixture of fields and forests or by providing fire sources. Celebrate Bees, Birds, and Beetles, its National Pollinator Week. Credit: Joerg Boethling / Alamy Stock Photo. Explainer: Desertification and the role of climate change, the greatest environmental challenge of our time, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, 42m tonnes of nitrogen and 26m tonnes of phosphorus, Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, warming sea surface temperatures in the Mediterranean, cropland expand into forests and grasslands, Global Assessment of Human-induced Soil Degradation, more than 250 soil and environmental scientists, Global Assessment of Human-induced Soil Degradation (GLASOD), World Map of the Status of Human-Induced Soil Degradation: An explanatory note, Global Assessment of Land Degradation and Improvement, more able to evaporate moisture from the land surface, the likelihood and severity of droughts around the world. This can be through a loss of nutrients, such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, or a decline in the amount of organic matter in the soil. People need food to survive, and as the worlds population grows, so too does the demand for food. In order to get some ideaabout this, we can compare countriesGlobal Hunger Index(GHI) score with their population growth rates. Inadequate sanitation results in disease that spreads quickly, causing illness and death. On the contrary, we see that hunger has fallen fastest in countries with high population growth. Request Permissions. Do those countries with particularly high population growth rates find it harder to adequately feed its population? People are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of desertification where they have insecure property rights, where there are few economic supports for farmers, where there are high levels of poverty and inequality, and where governance is weak, Stringer adds. Any area that receives more than this is referred to as humid. But coming up with a robust global estimate for desertification is not straightforward, explains Kimutai: Current estimates of the extent and severity of desertification vary greatly due to missing and/or unreliable information. A fundamental challenge is the slow pace at which population trends change. Our World In Data is a project of the Global Change Data Lab, a registered charity in England and Wales (Charity Number 1186433). One of the main processes is erosion the gradual breaking down and removal of rock and soil. The Ecology of Human Populations: Thomas Malthus, A Pleistocene Puzzle: Extinction in South America. Then there are underlying causes as well, the IPBES report notes, including economic, demographic, technological, institutional and cultural drivers. Removing trees can upset the balance of nutrients in the soil and takes away the roots that helps bind the soil together, leaving it at risk of being eroded and washed or blown away. Degradation can also open the land up to invasive species and those less suitable for grazing livestock, says Michaelides: In many countries, desertification means a decline in soil fertility, a reduction in vegetation cover especially grass cover and more invasive shrub species. What is very clear is that prevention is better and much cheaper than cure. In Central America, population density and loss of forest cover are closely related at many scales: at the regional and national level, and in local areas inside and near forest reserves, such as the Maya Biosphere Reserve in Guatemala.7 This relationship may overpower efforts to manage forests in protected areas, particularly where the local population is primarily dependent on subsistence agriculture (see figure). The excess mortality estimate is taken from the World Peace Foundation list of famines. Even small scale land mismanagement can lead to degradation at larger scales, so the problem is quite complex and hard to manage.. But how does this happen? Roger-Mark De Souza, John Williams, and Frederick A.B. Both population and per capita consumption may continue to increase but are no longer associated with local forests and land use. CAUSES 1. This growth is the result of two trends: on the one hand, the gradual increase in average human longevity due to widespread improvements in public health, nutrition, personal hygiene and. These three countries would be situated in the top quarter of our sample in terms of population growth, with DRC and South Sudan roughly in the top decile. In spite of significant human population increases during the 1990s, India added 381,000 hectares (net) through tree plantation programs.8 One recent study has suggested that this increase in forests is a function of Indias relatively closed economy and the resultant need to ensure domestic production of forest products, and therefore might not have occurred had Indias external markets been more open.9 Similar plantation efforts in China have produced an even larger net increase in forests. Deforestation 4. Land erosion caused by deforestation and over-farming, Ngorongoro Highlands, Tanzania. Indeed,food supply per personhas consistently increased in recent decades, as we can see in the interactive line chart shown. Learn more in these real-world examples, and challenge yourself toconstruct a modelthat explains the Earth system relationships. The large increase in global population being met with an even greater increase in food supply (largely due to increases in yields per hectare). In a few large Asian countries, aggressive forest policy in the recent past has more than offset losses of forest cover from agricultural expansion and development. By 2100, global temperatures are likely to rise by 2-3C above pre-industrial levels. As the authors note, this was in part due to concern on the part of humanitarian organisations that they would be contravening US government sanctions. (Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 1998). It noted that: For much of the world, there is little good information on the extent of desertification in individual countries. Suzi Kerr, Alexander S. Pfaff, and Arturo Sanchez, Development and Deforestation: Evidence From Costa Rica (unpublished paper, 2003). The map below, for example, shows the projected change for a measure of aridity (defined as the ratio of rainfall to potential evapotranspiration, PET) by 2100 under climate model simulations for RCP8.5. Dust storms in the Middle East, for example, are becoming more frequent and intense in recent years, a recent study found. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are as essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. When used to irrigate crops, runoff evaporates and leaves behind much of the salts that it collected. World human population growth from 10,000 BC to 2019 AD. Statistically significant at the 1% level, even when controlling for GDP per capita in 2016 (using World Bank PPP data), This relationship is significant at the 1% level. Furthermore, both the US and the EU had significantly reduced humanitarian spending in the country in the run up to the famine. Reproduced with permission from Steven Sherwood. Tags: sustainability, desertification, overgrazing, Pollinators around the globe are facing a grim future as a key component of global biodiversity. The opening section of Article 1 of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, which was adopted in 1994 and came into force in 1996. On the other hand, heavy rainfall can erode soil itself and cause waterlogging and subsidence. So, while global average temperatures are around 1.1C warmer now than in pre-industrial times, the land surface has warmed by approximately 1.7C. Projected changes in aridity index (the ratio of rainfall to PET), simulated over land by 27 CMIP5 climate models by 2100 under the RCP8.5 scenario. Blog entry from British environmentalist, Sir Jonathan Porrit, 11/07/20111. For example, widespread drought and associated desertification in the Sahel region of Africa in the second half of the 20th century has been linked to natural fluctuations in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, while research also suggests a partial recovery in rains was driven by warming sea surface temperatures in the Mediterranean. Soils can also suffer from salinisation an increase in salt content and acidification from overuse of fertilisers. There are numerous ways in which the land can degrade. The soil becomes very dry and desertification occurs; the land ostensibly becomes a desert. In addition, the delegates considered the varied consequences of desertification, such as crop failures or decreased yields in rain-fed farmland, the loss of perennial plant cover and thus loss of forage for livestock, reduced woody biomass and thus scarcity of fuelwood and building materials, a decrease in potable water stocks from reductions in surface water and groundwater flow, increased sand dune intrusion onto croplands and settlements, increased flooding due to rising sedimentation in rivers and lakes, and amplified air and water pollution from dust and sedimentation. Food scarcity has played a smaller role in famines than suggested by the Malthusian narrative. They can also affect the formation and lifetimes of clouds, potentially making rainfall less likely and thus reducing moisture in an already dry area. This has devastating consequences for food security, livelihoods and biodiversity, she explains: Where food security and livelihoods are intimately tied to the land, the consequences of desertification are particularly immediate. To better understand how climatic changes and human activities contribute to the process of desertification, the consequences listed above can be grouped into four broad areas: Nearly 2,750,000 square km (about 1,062,000 square miles) of croplands are irrigated. Growing demand for food can see cropland expand into forests and grasslands, and use of intensive farming methods to maximise yields. Most salt-degraded cropland occurs in Asia and southwestern North America, which account for 75 and 15 percent of the worldwide total, respectively. To be sure, more developed nations, with slower population growth, are major contributors to climate problems and work must be done to impact consumption. Rapid growth and the associated slow progress in development also diminish their capacity to respond and adapt to emerging environmental threats, including those caused by climate change. Research shows that using traditional knowledge can be particularly beneficial for tackling land degradation. In the film, Hope in a Changing Climate, reviewed last month, there is a discussion of overgrazing leading to soil desertification. According to a recent report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), land degradation is almost always the result of multiple interacting causes. Source: Updated (with data from Food and Agriculture Organization, The Global Forest Assessment 2000) from Frederick A.B. Overpopulation and overexploitation of natural resources 6. Population data was taken from the World Bank for 1992 to 2016. In simple terms, this means the amount of rainfall the area receives is between 5-65% of the water it has the potential to lose through evaporation and transpiration from the land surface and vegetation, respectively (assuming sufficient moisture is available). As mentioned in the quote, this suggestion is commonly associated with the name of Thomas Robert Malthus, the English political economist writing at the turn of the nineteenth century. The likely range of global temperatures by 2100 for RCP8.5 is 4.0-6.1C above pre-industrial levels. proportion of undernourished people in the world has fallen. This is typically through some force of nature such as wind, rain and/or wavesbut can be exacerbated by activities including ploughing, grazing or deforestation. Grazing lands, which are harmed by overgrazing, soil. Arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas are known collectively as drylands. An overview of studies conducted in the 1980s and 1990s reveals a strong relationship between population growth and deforestation in Central America, East and West Africa, and South Asia, but a much less clear association in Amazonia (South America) and Central Africa.2 In a number of more developed countries, such as the United States, China and Russia, forest cover has been recovering for some time after extensive earlier deforestation.3, From the deforestation studies to date, a few generalizations can be made. Another study notes that climate model simulations suggest severe and widespread droughts in the next 3090 years over many land areas resulting from either decreased precipitation and/or increased evaporation. Nearly 20 percent of the worlds population (1.2 billion people) lives in these biodiversity hotspots. This makes conflicts between biodiversity and forest conservation, population, and development almost impossible to avoid. The data tell a different story. As Africas population increases, the productivity of the land supporting this population declines. Nevertheless, by the time the third WAD produced by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission came around two decades later, the authors decided to take a different path. In 1992, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) published its first World Atlas of Desertification (WAD). On the other hand, plants and animals are quick to take advantage of wetter periods, and productivity can rapidly increase during these times. On farmed land, this inevitably needs to be replaced through fertilisers at significant cost. ), UNEP and ISRIC, Wageningen. The general principle from the experience of countries as different as the United States, China, and India may be that after going through an initial deforestation phase, the combination of the scarcity of forest products and rising economic fortunes can lead societies to value, replant, and manage forests. These are very real and at times severe issues. Of the countries for which we do have GHI data, it is clear that those with higher levels of hunger have also tended to have had higher population growth over the last 25 years (first chart).12, It is important to see though that among the countries for which we have GHI scores in both 1992 and 2017, the level of hunger went down in all but one Iraq (second chart). While the term may bring to mind the windswept sand dunes of the Sahara or the vast salt pans of the Kalahari, its an issue that reaches far beyond those living in and around the worlds deserts, threatening the food security and livelihoods of more than two billion people. Rapid population growth makes it more difficult for low-income and lower-middle-income countries to commit sufficient resources to improving the health and education of their populations. In 1977, at the United Nations Conference on Desertification (UNCOD) in Nairobi, Kenya, representatives and delegates first contemplated the worldwide effects of desertification. This chart compares the number of famine deaths per decade - based on our famine dataset - with the world population over the same period. Adding dust and sand into the atmosphere is also one of the ways that desertification itself can affect the climate, says Kimutai. Of course, none of these drivers acts in isolation. The conference explored the causes and contributing factors and also possible local and regional solutions to the phenomenon. And it is no secret that population growth itself is an indicator of gross inequity. PIP: Desertification is a result of overexploitation of the land through overcultivation, overgrazing, deforestation, and poor irrigation practices. How Is Population Growth Related to Climate Change? Of the irrigated dryland, 30 percent (an area roughly the size of Japan) is moderately to severely degraded, and this percentage is increasing. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) underlines that limiting global warming to 1.5C would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Overgrazing 2. 53(4): pp.322-331. Drylands are home to approximately 2.7 billion people (pdf) 90% of whom live in developing countries. This has a considerable financial impact. Shading indicates the number of coincident risks. Conflict and Health, 7, 22. http://doi.org/10.1186/1752-1505-7-22. Credit: Maximilian Buzun / Alamy Stock Photo. Contemporary famine scholarship tends to suggest that insufficient aggregate food supply is less important than one might think, and instead emphasises the role of public policy and violence: in most famines of the 20th and 21st centuries, conflict, political oppression, corruption, or gross economic mismanagement on the part of dictatorships or colonial regimes played a key role.4, The same also applies for the most acutely food-insecure countries today.5, It is also true of the 2011 famine in Somalia referred to above, in which food aid was greatly restricted, and in some cases diverted, by militant Islamist group al Shabaaband other armed opposition groups in the country.6, Famine scholar Stephen Devereux of the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, summarizes the trajectory of famines over the 20th century as follows:The achievement of a global capacity to guarantee food security was accompanied by a simultaneous expansion of the capacity of governments to inflict lethal policies, including genocidal policies often involving the extraction of food from the poor and denial of food to the starving.7. Increasing ecological impacts on environments. The former includes factors such as deforestation, overgrazing of livestock, over-cultivation of crops and inappropriate irrigation; the latter includes natural fluctuations in climate and global warming as a result of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions. Blog entry from www.jonathanporritt.com, dated11/07/2011. The GLASOD project was itself based on expert judgement, with more than 250 soil and environmental scientists contributing to regional assessments that fed into its global map, which it published in 1991. The areas shaded red are those expected to become drier because PET will increase more than rainfall while those in green are expected to become wetter. Earlier this year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a report that included the following conclusion: Globally, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita and population growth remained the strongest drivers of CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion in the last decade.. The first scoring was conducted in 1992, and was then repeated every eight years with the most recent being in carried out in 2017. Similarly in Argentina, the total loss of ecosystem services due to land-use/cover change, wetlands degradation and use of land degrading management practices on grazing lands and selected croplands is equivalent to about 16% of its GDP. Rainwater results from the condensation of water evaporated by sunlight. Small, weak economies cannot meet the rising demands on them, and urbanization leads to thousands of people living in poverty in relatively close quarters. Who would have thought it? Vegetation is damaged or destroyed 2. For instance, in sub-Saharan Africa, human population density is greatest in area with the highest number of species of birds, mammals, snakes, and amphibians. The impact of climate change on aridity is also complicated. Instead of looking for solutions in demographic trends, achieving sustainability will depend critically on humanitys capacity and willingness to increase resource efficiency in consumption and production and to decouple economic growth from damage to the environment. Here we consider whether population growth causes famine and hunger. A critical wild card in the population-forests equation is global, regional, and local climate change, which can alter temperature and precipitation patterns sufficiently so that the existing forest cover type can no longer be supported. For those people living downstream this reduces flood risk as there is less sedimentation and could also deliver improved water quality.. Population growth is the increase in the number of humans on Earth. Scientific American: Does Population Growth Impact Climate Change? Population growth is the increase in the number of humans on Earth. In RCP4.5, atmospheric CO2 sits at 540ppm by 2100 roughly 140ppm higher than now equivalent to 630ppm once other forcings are included (in CO2e). Everyone forgets that last part about equity and fairness, she adds. Irrigated crops need an average of 80 cm (about 30 inches) of water annually. (Recent research shows that this is because the lapse rate the rate that air temperatures decrease with height through the atmosphere is experiencing larger decreases over the ocean than land. This is an area that could produce 20m tonnes of grain annually. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. For example, a study (pdf) of the Cholistan Desert region of Pakistan found that the flora and fauna have been thinning out gradually with the increasing severity of desertization. physics, engineering, mathematics, computer sciences, and economics. Rainfall has a cooling effect on the land surface, so a decline in rainfall can allow soils to dry out in the heat and become more prone to erosion. As desertification cannot be characterised by a single metric, it is also tricky to make projections for how rates of degradation could change in the future. Essentially, rainwater is distilled seawater or lake water. The score is based on data collected in the years leading up to the scoring year, and as such reflect the hunger levels in this period rather than solely capturing conditions in the year itself. By the time it is detected, it may be hard to halt or reverse.. The resulting loss of arable land means less food production, which threatens to leave millions undernourished. This is not Read More , Already we are two months into the International Year of Soils, a global campaign highlighting the fragility of universal Read More . Testing soil health by measuring for nitrogen leakage in Western Kenya. Stopping desertification before it starts requires measures to protect against soil erosion, to prevent vegetation loss, to prevent overgrazing or land mismanagement, she explains: All these things require concerted efforts and policies from communities and governments to manage land and water resources at large scales. Our World in Data is free and accessible for everyone. Soil becomes infertile Two of the major concerns facing the world today are overpopulation and climate change. However, sustainable agriculture and responsible livestock grazing practices, such as limiting the number of animals grazing in a certain area or rotating grazing lands can help prevent overgrazing in the first place. 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