Since the mid-1990s, the concept of the 'urban food desert' has been extensively applied to deprived neighbourhoods in European and North American cities. Food deserts are usually characterised as economically-disadvantaged areas where there is relatively poor access to healthy and affordable food ...
(590ft), most of this huge expanse that stretches over the north of the african continent is characterised by hard, rocky plateaus. berber and beja peoples have lived in the sahara for centuries. © cherylramalho/shutterstock mcmurdo dry valleys, antarctica the antarctic continent is all ...
Grove and Warren (1968) established the now widely accepted chronology for late Quaternary climate change in North Africa, whereby the late Pleistocene was characterised by a drier climate with more extensive dune systems, followed by a wetter climate in the early Holocene, and a return to more ...