Human responses can exacerbate desertification processes under climate change conditions, even in deserts. Exploitation of mineral resources  can cause human population changes as people flock to the area for work , increasing vulnerability due to, for example, soil erosion and salinisation, as well as increasing pressure on potable water for human consumption  and exhausting aquifers. Salinisation is projected to increase in the drylands due to climate change impacts in future . For example, in India, about 7 million hectares of arable land area is currently affected by salt . It is projected that unsustainable use of marginal quality waters in irrigation and neglect of drainage, combined with climate change impacts, will accelerate land salinisation in India, rendering another 9 million hectares salty and less productive by 2050 . This has important cost implications given that annually, 16.84 million tonnes of farm production valued at INR 230.19 billion is already lost in India due to salinity and associated problems . The literature further shows evidence of desertification of oases and irrigated lands in parts of northern China's drylands , the Indian subcontinent's deserts, as well as the Mesopotamian Arabian Desert .
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