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Northern China's desertification is worth highlighting because it's happening at a massive industrial scale - the Gobi and surrounding areas are expanding partly due to overgrazing and water extraction for agriculture, but also because of how fast the changes are accelerating. The previous answer touches on the usual suspects correctly, but what makes China's situation distinct is how it's caught between trying to expand farming and pasture while simultaneously running out of groundwater, creating this vicious loop that's hard to reverse even with government intervention like tree-planting campaigns.

The Sahel region south of the Sahara and parts of central Asia (like around the Aral Sea basin) are experiencing the fastest desertification right now, driven by drought, overgrazing, and climate change. Places like Chad, Niger, and Mali have been hit particularly hard over the past couple decades.

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