Vulnerable eco-environment, too high population pressure, and backward techniques and extensive management are the main causes leading to desertification.

脆弱的生态环境、过高的人口压力及落后的生产技术和粗放的管理是导致我国荒漠化发生的主要因素。

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It also can influence clouds and precipitation, leading to droughts; which, in turn, leads to desertification and more dust.

反过来它也能影响云和降水，导致干旱，甚至导致沙漠化和多尘。

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Soil salinization is one of the major factors compromising crop growth and leading to soil degeneration and desertification in natural ecological environment.

土壤盐渍化已成为危害农作物生长、土壤荒漠化和自然生态环境恶化的主要原因之一。

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But Zafar Adeel of the United Nations University International Network on Water, Environment and Health, an expert on water management and a leading author of the report, warned that more needed to be done to combat desertification.

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