More than 2 billion people live in areas that are characterized as drylands, found especially in Africa and Asia.

超过20亿的人居住在干旱地区，主要分布在亚洲和非洲。

Most of Mongolia's landscape is made up of drylands that are prone to becoming deserts.

蒙古大部分地区都是旱地，很容易变成沙漠。

The desert locust lives in the belt of drylands that stretches from Mauritania, on the west coast of Africa, to India.

沙漠蝗虫栖息于从非洲西海岸的毛里塔尼亚一直延伸到印度的干旱地带。

As the pressure to provide these resources for the world's rapidly expanding population increases, coupled with the growing threats of global climate change, drylands across the world are experiencing more soil erosion than ever.

随着为世界迅速增长的人口提供这些资源的压力增加，加上全球气候变化的威胁日益加大，世界各地的旱地正在经历比以往任何时候都更严重的土壤侵蚀。