This article examines the effect of remittance income on deforestation in Nepal during 2001–2010 using satellite-based land use data and a nationwide household survey.
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Adoption of multiple sustainable land management practices among irrigator rural farm households of Ethiopia
Using a household and plot-level survey conducted in Ethiopia, this study analyzes the difference in farmers’ adoption of sustainable land management (SLM) practices between their rainfed and irrigated plots.
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Soil health and gender: Why and how to identify the linkages
Rethinking food system policies in terms of “eco-agro-food systems” can help to foster an integrated approach that will maintain and restore vital ecosystem services and reduce the likelihood of future shocks.
Ecosystem services are synonymous with nature’s benefit to people. Agro-food is synonymous with agri-food.
Existing approaches and methodologies that investigate effects of land degradation on food security vary greatly.
This IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems, also known as the Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRRCL), is
brief
The palm oil dilemma: Policy tensions among higher productivity, rising demand, and deforestation
Managing the policy tensions among higher productivity, rising demand, and deforestation to avoid biodiversity losses and increased greenhouse gas emissions.
discussion paper
Sustainable land management and its effects on water security and poverty: Evidence from a watershed intervention program in Ethiopia
This paper investigates the impacts of sustainable land management (SLM) on water security and poverty based on an evaluation of a watershed level SLM program promoted in Amhara regional state of Ethiopia.
Malawi generates 98 percent of its electricity from hydropower, relying primarily on three power plant sites along the Shire River.
book chapter
Economics of land degradation in Niger
Land degradation poses daunting challenges to Niger and the country has designed several policies and strategies for combatting it.
journal article
Early adoption of conservation agriculture practices: Understanding partial compliance in programs with multiple adoption decisions
What are the decision-making processes for adopting conservation agriculture policies? Studies from southern Malawi.
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Commerce: Help bigger palm oil yields to save land
project paper
Implications of wide-scale cropland restoration: A crucial element of the forest landscape restoration approach
The results of this study reveal that the full inclusion of crop production in the forest landscape restoration approach could produce largescale, worldwide benefits for food security and therefore facilitate a wide uptake of restoration practices
discussion paper
Cropland restoration as an essential component to the forest landscape restoration approach - Global effects of widescale adoption
Existing approaches and methodologies that investigate effects of land degradation on food security vary greatly.
book chapter