At a United Nations conference on combatting desertification held in December 2000, one expert put partial blame on global farming, which has made it hard for many small farmers to compete. Farmers therefore abandon land that had been preserved for thousands of years by means of terracing and careful irrigation, and the soil eventually washes away.
प्रॉसिक्यूटर्स ने सन्‌ 1997 के कानून के तहत इस ग्रूप पर पाबंदी लगानी चाही, जिसके मुताबिक उन धार्मिक पंथों पर रोक लगायी जाती है जो लोगों में नफरत या पक्षपात की भावनाएँ पैदा करते हैं । ”