- A Desertification WebQuest
 - Online activity for students. Find out in detail what desertification is and how people can prevent its negative results on our planet. - Beijing's Desert Storm
- Discusses the spread of desertification in China.
- DeMon
- Satellite-based desertification monitoring in the Mediterranean basin.
- Desertification - Food and Agriculture Organization of the Unites Nations
- Aims to assist national, regional and international stakeholders and networks involved in sustainable development of drylands and in particular in the implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).
- Desertification In Iceland
- Contains information on a research and assessment programme looking at causes and reclamation efforts.
- Desertification of Arid Lands
- Looks at the role resource mismanagement plays in desertification.
- Desertification: Serious Threat or Global Myth?
- Looks at why the phenomena not being universally recognised.
- Global Alarm: Dust and Sandstorms from the World's Drylands
- UN report covering the physics, mechanics, and processes of dust and sandstorms as well as featuring case studies from North America, Australia, China, and Asia as a whole.
- International NGO Network on Desertification and Drought (RIOD)
- Works with regional NGOs to develop plans to combat desertification and drought.
- Len Milich: Desertification
- Addresses the basic arguments: Are desert lands resilient or fragile? Are changes natural or anthropogenic? Are changes reversible? How much land degradation is necessary before we declare desertification to have taken place? Does anthropogenic land degradation induce or augment meteorological drought?
- PRC Desertification: Inner Mongolian Range Wars and the Ningxia Population Boom
- Report from U.S. Embassy Beijing.
- Sahara and Sahel Observatory
- Striving to build up an African arena for cooperation and exchange to combat desertification and poverty.
- Trends of Desertification and its Rehabilitation in China
- By Zhu Zhenda.
- UN Drylands Development Centre
- Responsible for promoting sound dryland management and development as well as drought preparedness and mitigation.
- United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
- Contains the text of the convention, links to sites and conferences, and basic information on desertification.
- Wikipedia: Desertification
- Article about desertification, the degradation of land in arid, semi arid, and dry sub-humid areas resulting from various factors including climatic variations and human activities.
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