Abstract: Effect of desertification in Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the challenges affecting the region and has produced a lot of damages to its socio-economic activities. It can be seen in crop failures, livestock mortality and drought leading low economic output. The research attempts to evaluate the level of desertification in Yunusari Local Government Area. Satellites imageries with temporal and synoptic view were used in the assessment of desertification using supervised classification by maximum likelihood technique. Imageries from 1988 to 2018 at interval of ten years (10) were used. Early warning to the appropriate beneficiaries will strengthen capacity and increasing resiliency in disaster risk reduction and mitigation process. The findings in this research identified decrease healthy vegetation, increase arid land and increase dunes area coverage. This indicates desertification in the study area has increased, 41.215km2 of land areas covered by healthy was lost between 1988 and 2018, while arid land areas and dune fields increased from 398.113km2 in 1988 to 439.328km2 in 2018.
Keywords: Desertification, monitoring and mitigation.
Title: Monitoring and Assessment of Desertification for Sustainable Development in Yunusari
Author: Ayuba Abubakar Fusami, Abubakar Abdulgaffar A., Hassan Hashimu Abdu, Abubakar Muhammad Yarima
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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