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El Niño, La Niña, and climate resilience in Tanzania
The Pacific climate oscillation is contributing to intensifying rainfall events and droughts in southern Africa.
What makes people aware of ecosystem services?
A survey of rural communities in Nigeria shows how agricultural programs can encourage better use of ecosystem services in pest control.
Healthy soils for global sustainable development
It takes millennia to develop fertile soils, but according to authors of a chapter on soils in the 2016 GFPR, we are losing 75 billion tons of soil globally each year, with impacts that not only hurt poor farmers, but extend well beyond the farm.
The case for investment in restoring degraded lands
Land degradation occurs in all agroecologies around the world, but it can be reversed. (Originally published on the Agrilinks site).
Global trends plus local decisions equals a more food-secure world by 2050
Achieving food security is one of the essential components of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which were adopted in September of last year.
Finding a middle ground
Post by Ephraim Nkonya on incentivizing adoption of Integrated Soil Fertility Management.
Indigenous Adaptation Strategies for Improving Land Degradation in Ethiopia
In spite of Ethiopia’s widespread poverty and weak capacity for resilience against climate change, one region has used indigenous adaptation strategies to combat land degradation.
Economics of Land Degradation
A recent IFPRI/ZEF study on the economics of land degradation was a topic of discussion at this week's UN High-Level meeting on desertification.