Visualizing Desert: People, Agriculture, Livestock and Li...
Hameed, Muhammad Asif / Tariq, Muhammad
Development of sustainable livelihoods in hot deserts region is a major challenge due to fundamental environmental constraints: Scanty and erratic rainfall, with high variability of precipitation across a season and across years, Frequent drought, Extreme temperatures, Highly fragile eco-system marked by sparse vegetation and acute scarcity of quality water for drinking and irrigation. These constraints are compounded by remoteness of habitati...