antidesertification

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English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ desertification.

Adjective

antidesertification (not comparable)

  1. (environmental science) Serving to counter desertification.
    • 2007 January 2, Dina Kraft, “From Far Beneath the Israeli Desert, Water Sustains a Fertile Enterprise”, in New York Times:
      At the conference, Gregoire de Kalbermatten, deputy secretary general of the antidesertification group at the United Nations, said, “We need to learn from the resilience of Israel in developing dry lands.”

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