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East Africa: Land Degradation

Map of East Africa showing land degradation from 2008–2023. Additional map features, such as cropland and population diagrams for the countries depicted, round out the presentation.

• Geographic coverage East Africa
• Type of visual artwork Map
• Year of publication 2026
• Media type Image/webp
• Temporal coverage 2008–2023
• Size 7016 × 9921 px
• Language English
• Creator Matthias Beilstein
• Source(s) Conservation International (Trends.Earth); An annual cropland extent dataset for Africa at 30m spatial resolution from 2000 to 2022, Zhejiang University; United Nations, Population Division; United Nations Geospatial; GeoNames; OpenStreetMap
• Contributor Zoï Environment Network
• Funder United Nations Environment Programme; GRID-Arendal
• Link
  Publication "Mountains in Motion: Global Linkages from Ridge to River" on the GRID-Arendal publications page
  https://www.grida.no/publications/3014
  Map compendium "Mountains in Motion: Global Linkages from Ridge to River" on the Zoï Environment Network products page
  https://zoinet.org/product/mountains-in-motion-map-compendium/
• Credit Map by Matthias Beilstein / Zoï Environment Network
• Copyright notice 2026. Matthias Beilstein / Zoï Environment Network. All rights reserved.
• Download Map_east_africa_land_degradation_2026.webp
• URL https://beilstein.art/media/images/map_east_africa_land_degradation_2026.webp
• NFT
  Blockchain: Ethereum
  Marketplace: Foundation.app
  https://foundation.app/mint/eth/0xac4b2BD671069228e650328DBBaF782bA9A72682/3