Think there's more layers to the desertification problem. Desertification also can be linked to activities impacting climate - One paper talks about aerosols (

Think there's more layers to the desertification problem. Desertification also can be linked to activities impacting climate - One paper talks about aerosols (likely via coal use in europe in the early 1900's) as a driver to droughts in Sahelian Africa and the Amazon: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.652.3232&rep=rep1&type=pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.652...