Across
- 3. by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture.
- 7. of agriculture, used especially in tropical Africa, in which an area of ground is cleared of vegetation and cultivated for a few years and then abandoned for a new area until its fertility has been naturally restored.
- 8. of people or things that can be conveyed by a vehicle.
- 9. hunting of rhinoceros in Africa, primarily because of an increase in the demand for a traditional Chinese medicine that is made from the powder of rhinoceros horn.
- 11. naturally in a particular place; native.
- 12. that is adopted as a common language between speakers whose native languages are different.
- 13. crop
- 14. plain in tropical and subtropical regions, with few trees.
Down
- 1. produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.
- 2. of mouth; spoken rather than written.
- 4. cultivation
- 5. capacity
- 6. simplified form of a language, used for communication between people not sharing a common language.
- 10. franca
- 11. tradition
- 15. of institutionalised racial discrimination between 1948 and 1991.