People in poor countries rely on land-based resources to generate most of their income. The uses of these resources are wide-ranging and adaptable to varying circumstances, often serving as a form of security against adverse shocks or as facilitator to access new opportunities. The management of land-based resources--including cropland, grazing land, forests, and wetlands--not only impacts the welfare of direct users, but has ripple effects by further impacting the flow of environmental services, such as prevention of erosion and runoff, removal of pollutants from water flows, sequestration of atmospheric carbon and other greenhouse gases, and preservation of biodiversity. The goal of the Land Resource Management program is to identify and facilitate the adoption and implementation of productive, equitable, and sustainable land management (SLM) strategies and policies that promote sustainable poverty reduction in developing countries.
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Ephraim Nkonya
Nonresident Fellow
Ephraim Nkonya
Nonresident FellowEdward Kato
Senior Research AnalystYating Ru
Research Analyst
A scoping review of the contributions of farmers’ organizations to smallholder agriculture
Uganda
Rethinking agro-food sector to combat land degradation and desertification
The impact of interventions in the global land and agri‐food sectors on Nature’s Contributions to People and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Which practices co‐deliver food security, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and combat land‐degradation and desertification?
Impact of creative capacity building of local innovators and communities on income, welfare and attitudes in Uganda: A cluster randomized control trial approach
Drivers of adoption of small-scale irrigation in Mali and its impacts on nutrition across sex of irrigators
Humanitarian assistance and resilience-building: Impact of Fadama III-AF II on food security and livelihood restoration in Northeastern Nigeria
Evaluation design for the environmental and natural resource management project in Malawi
Strategies and policies to reach a land-degradation neutral world
The unholy cross: Profitability and adoption of soil fertility management practices in sub-Saharan Africa
Demand for horticultural crops in Tanzania is growing dramatically
- Issue Post
Benefits of interconnectedness: How addressing climate change can foster sustainable land and food security
- Issue Post
World Soil Day: Overcoming farmers’ resistance to climate-smart agriculture in Africa
- Issue Post
El Niño, La Niña, and climate resilience in Tanzania
- Research Post
The case for investment in restoring degraded lands
- Issue Post
June 17: Land Degradation and Sustainable Agriculture the Centerpiece of Day to Recognize the Significance of Desertification and Drought
- IFPRI Policy Seminar
Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement
- IFPRI Policy Seminar
Achieving Food Security in Africa South of the Sahara Through Food Value Chains
- IFPRI Program/Country Event -
Land Management in Bhutan
- In the News
Worthy to be illustrated (Daily News)
- In the News
Famine in Africa (Voice of America)
Project Ecosystem Services
Featured Highlights
- Blog
Finding a middle ground
Post by Ephraim Nkonya on incentivizing adoption of Integrated Soil Fertility Management.
- Basic Page
Video: The Food-Energy-Water Security Nexus in Malawi
Video highlights the importance of the Food-Energy-Water Security Nexus in practice.
From the ground up
Impacts of a pro-poor community-driven development project in Nigeria
- Blog
Investing in restoring degraded lands
Land degradation occurs in all agroecologies around the world, but it can be reversed. (Originally published on the Agrilinks site).