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The shadow of farmer João Tavares Rodrigues riding his horse reflects over the desertified land. Gilbués, Piauí, Brazil. 14 September 2019. The areas susceptible to desertification in Brazil occupy about 1,340,000 km2 and directly reach 30 million people. Of this total, 180 thousand square kilometers are already in a serious and very serious process of desertification, concentrated mainly in the Northeast states, which have 55.25% of their territory affected in different degrees of environmental deterioration. The process of natural and anthropogenic causes, land degradation and desertification bring with it dramatic consequences and, in many cases, difficult to recover, generating very high social, economic and environmental costs.

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#DesertificationAndDroughtDay
marcio pimenta
Jun 17, 2020
Today the UN remembers the day to combat desertification. In partnership with journalist Liana Melo, we produced this report on desertification in Brazil as a result of human activities. Human activity resulting in water scarcity, landscape changes and feedback loops in the climate system play a key role in intensification, propagation & persistence of #drought risk #DesertificationAndDroughtDay #ClimateEmergency

E o homem criou um deserto no Cerrado
Uma viagem a Gibués, epicentro da desertificação no país, onde a pecuária extensiva e a agricultura esgotaram a capacidade do solo e seu poder de renovação

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Marcio Pimenta is a explorer and photographer based in the South of Brazil.
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