Managing the policy tensions among higher productivity, rising demand, and deforestation to avoid biodiversity losses and increased greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

Agricultural productivity in the highlands of Ethiopia is threatened by severe land degradation, resulting in significant reductions in agricultural GDP.

Analysis of the causal relationship between farmers’ renting behavior and arable land quality using unique farmland soil quality test data in China.

Malawi generates 98 percent of its electricity from hydropower, relying primarily on three power plant sites along the Shire River.

Given the central role that agriculture plays in the rural economy in developing countries, governments have implemented supply– and demand-side policies and programs to promote sustainable fertilizer use yielding mixed results.

Land degradation poses daunting challenges to Niger and the country has designed several policies and strategies for combatting it.

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

Existing approaches and methodologies that investigate effects of land degradation on food security vary greatly.

Agricultural productivity in Ethiopia’s highlands, the country’s breadbasket, is threatened by severe land degradation.