and snowfall is much less than other areas, where the annual average rainfall is less than 25CM. Definition by UNO (1995) - Land degradation in barren, humid and sub-humid areas due to climate change and human activities is called desertification.

As of 2005, considerable controversy existed over the proper definition of the term desertification with more than 100 formal definitions in existence. The most widely accepted of these was that of the Princeton University Dictionary which defined