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Learning from non-linear ecosystem dynamics is vital for achieving land degradation neutrality

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Journal Articles & Books
November, 2017
Global

Land Degradation Neutrality is one of the Sustainable Development Goal targets, requiring on-going degradation to be balanced by restoration and sustainable land management. However, restoration and efforts to prevent degradation have often failed to deliver expected benefits, despite enormous investments.

China’s land resources dilemma: Problems, outcomes, and options for sustainable land restoration

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Journal Articles & Books
November, 2017
China

Pressing issues such as water and food security, health, peace, and poverty are deeply linked to land degradation. The authors use China’s major land restoration programs as a case offering perspective on the existing problems in China’s major policies for improving degraded land and maintaining land resources in three dimensions.

Sustainable Land Management for Climate and People. Science-Policy Brief 03

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Journal Articles & Books
November, 2017
Ethiopia
Nicaragua
United States of America

Land provides crucial ecosystem services for human existence and human well-being, including provisioning, regulating, supporting and cultural services. Those services provide among others the production of fresh air, food, feed, fuel and fibre.

La cuestión agraria cubana aciertos y desaciertos en el período de 1975-2013: la necesidad de una tercera reforma agraria

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Journal Articles & Books
November, 2017
Latin America and the Caribbean
Cuba

El presente trabajo estudia las principales transformaciones introducidas en la economía cubana en el periodo de 1975 a 2013, con un énfasis particular en la Tercera Reforma Agraria puesta en vigor a partir de 1993, la cual significó el tránsito hacia un nuevo modelo agrario cuyo objetivo principal sería resolver el problema de la soberanía alimenticia.

M&E and Development engagement for ICRAF Project on Land Restoration EU-IFAD Funded

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Institutional & promotional materials
September, 2017
Eastern Africa
Ethiopia
Kenya
Tanzania
Western Africa
Mali
Niger

The document presents the progress of three interrelated components: 1) MEL-platform for supporting project planning and implementation of review and monitoring strategy; 2) Framework for Project engagement with Development Partners, measuring project outcomes and impacts where possible; 3)
Geoinformatics Options by Context (GeOC)

Mutations du système agraire dans le Département de la Nya, région du Logone Oriental au Sud du Tchad

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Reports & Research
September, 2017
Chad

La région du Logone Oriental est une zone pétrolifère à vocation
agricole. Plus de 80 % de la population vit des activités agropastorales. Dans
les années 2000, la croissance de la population et la mise en place des
infrastructures pétrolières a conduit à une restriction des terres agricoles. Dans le

A comparative assessment of land management approaches in Bhutan

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Peer-reviewed publication
June, 2017
Bhutan

Arable land in Bhutan is under serious threats of land degradation. Proper land management approach is needed to control soil erosion problems. This study is an attempt to characterize and document the conventional and the community-based land management approaches, applied in Chukha and Dagana districts, respectively.

Integración de la Agricultura en los Planes Nacionales de Adaptación (PNA). Estudio de caso Uruguay

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Reports & Research
June, 2017
Latin America and the Caribbean
Uruguay

Este estudio de caso sobre Uruguay es parte de una serie de estudios de caso de países que describe los pasos a dar para formular e implementar los Planes Nacionales de Adaptación (PNA). Los estudios de caso se enfocan en la adaptación en el sector agropecuario, que incluye la silvicultura, ganadería y pesca.

Restoring Degraded Rangelands in Jordan: Optimizing Mechanized Micro Water Harvesting using Rangeland Hydrology and Erosion Model (RHEM)

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Conference Papers & Reports
May, 2017
Western Asia
Jordan

Jordan’s rangelands, the so called Badia, home of the Bedouins, are threatened through a combination of
over-exploitation of the ecosystem services and a changing climate towards drier seasons and highly
erratic rainfalls. In the recent decades, the once productive grazing lands transformed into sparsely

Managing rangelands: promoting sustainable practices: Reseeding: a practical and costeffective technique that enhances ecological sustainability while strengthening system resilience

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Policy Papers & Briefs
April, 2017
Global

The problem of rangeland degradation can be reversed through revegetation, for example through inclusion of various locally adapted native species in the reseeding. Reseeding is the process by which rangelands are rehabilitated and it has two purposes; to ‘repair’ the degenerated rangeland system, and to increase the forage available for grazing animals.