Focusing on the Susceptibility to Desertification in Chicualacuala, Republic of Mozambique

Desertification is assessed as land degradation. A general problem in desertification assessment is
that land degradation is neither directly measured, because land degradation is derived from the
broader environmental degradation concept, nor directly detectable and monitored. In this paper, a
geo-environmental diagnostic was implemented to classify susceptibility to desertification in southern
Mozambique (Chicualacuala) and deliver responses to revert occurring land degradation. The process
of environmental diagnostic is a useful approach to identify the very processes and phenomena
belonging to the wide ranging concept of land degradation.