Editing Desertification (section)

=== Food insecurity ===
Global [[food security]] is being threatened by desertification. The more that [[Population growth|population grows]], the more food that has to be grown. The agricultural business is being displaced from one country to another. For example, Europe on average imports over 50% of its food. Meanwhile, 44% of agricultural land is located in dry lands and it supplies 60% of the world's food production. Desertification is decreasing the amount of sustainable land for agricultural uses but demands are continuously growing. In the near future, the demands will overcome the supply.<ref>{{Cite web |title=WAD {{!}} World Atlas of Desertification |url=https://wad.jrc.ec.europa.eu/globalagriculture |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191209170553/https://wad.jrc.ec.europa.eu/globalagriculture |archive-date=2019-12-09 |access-date=2019-11-19 |website=wad.jrc.ec.europa.eu}}</ref> The violent [[herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria]], [[Sudanese nomadic conflicts|Sudan]], [[March 2019 attacks against Fulani herders|Mali]] and other countries in the Sahel region have been exacerbated by [[climate change]], [[land degradation]] and [[population growth]].<ref>{{cite magazine |date=28 June 2018 |title=How Climate Change Is Spurring Land Conflict in Nigeria |url=https://time.com/5324712/climate-change-nigeria/ |magazine=Time}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=22 January 2019 |title=The battle on the frontline of climate change in Mali |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/the-reporters-46921487 |url-status=live |access-date=18 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211009175946/https://www.bbc.com/news/the-reporters-46921487 |archive-date=9 October 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=6 August 2018 |title=Farmer-Herder Conflicts on the Rise in Africa |publisher=ReliefWeb |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/world/farmer-herder-conflicts-rise-africa |url-status=live |access-date=18 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417045057/https://reliefweb.int/report/world/farmer-herder-conflicts-rise-africa |archive-date=17 April 2021}}</ref>