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Mostrando 1721 - 1730 de 1962
Enero 2008
Nepal
Mauritania
Malí
China
Uzbekistán
India
Chad
Europa oriental
África subsahariana
América Latina y el Caribe
Asia meridional

Across vast areas of the world, human activity has degraded once fertile and productive land. Deforestation, overgrazing, continuous farming and poor irrigation practices have affected almost 2 billion hectares worldwide, threatening the health and livelihoods of over one billion people.

Artículos de revistas y libros
Enero 2008
Tayikistán

This paper examines the impact of land reform on agricultural productivity in Tajikistan. Recent legislation allows farmers to obtain access to heritable land shares for private use, but reform has been geographically uneven. The break-up of state farms has occurred in some areas where agriculture has little to offer but, where high value crops are grown, land reform has hardly begun.

Artículos de revistas y libros
Enero 2008
Global

There is growing degradation in sylvo-pastoral lands that were originally under common property regimes, but over which the state now asserts ownership. User associations are being given the right to take charge of regulating how these areas are sustainably exploited by means of use agreements, and are proving an effective instrument in halting the degradation process.

Enero 2008
África subsahariana

In the face of trends towards a widening “food gap” and general poverty, this paper attempts to address the problem by discussing the methodologies necessary for sustainable land management to ensure improved food security, rapid economic development and poverty reduction in developing countries of Africa.

Artículos de revistas y libros
Diciembre 2007
China

Land use change resulted in land degradation is a focus of research on global environmental changes and plays a significant role in the stability and economic development of oases in arid regions of China.

Documentos de política y resúmenes
Diciembre 2007
Turquía

Effects of salinity and sodicity on some soil physical properties were discussed in this article. Effects of salinity and sodicity on floculation, dispersion, infiltration, hydraulic conductivity, runoff and seal formation were taken into consideration in assessment.

Artículos de revistas y libros
Diciembre 2007
Etiopía
África

A conceptual framework is developed and used for improving the livelihood of Sub-Saharan communities faced with multiple stresses resulting from adverse environments, vector-transmitted diseases, and limited food. Ecosocial systems are the units for management.

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