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… Land Degradation Neutrality: implications and opportunities … iii iv iii Summary Degradation of forests, rangelands and agricultural lands is a major barrier to achieving … institutional environments (WOCAT, 2007). The drive for agricultural intensification in some countries has fuelled …

… - Review and compilation of best practices in sustainable land management technologies, including adaptation Review and compilation of best practices in sustainable land management technologies, including adaptation Note by … and review process on best practices in sustainable land management technologies, including adaptation, and …

… March 2015, Cancún, Mexico “Combating desertifi cation/land degradation and drought for poverty reduction and … Midreshet Ben-Gurion (Israel) Matthias MAGUNDA, National Agricultural Research Institution, Kampala (Uganda) Oleg … and Natural Resources and Director of the Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Nevada, …

… burning of fossil fuels and changes in land cover—are modifying the concentration of atmospheric … for even small local temperature increases (1-2°C); • Agricultural production in many African regions is projected … expected to lead to salinisation and desertifi cation of agricultural land; • In Southern Europe, higher temperatures …

… afghanistan were in before local conflicts over water or land turned into civil wars, sexual violence or genocide. nor … a lost opportunity to produce 20 million tons of grain • agricultural yields could fall by up to 50% in some african … drylands and developing countries. about one third of all agricultural land is either highly or moderately degraded. …

… or loss of biological or economic productivity of land resulting from land use or from processes such as water or wind erosion. The … of cropping systems as well as the adoption of appropriate agricultural technologies, among others, to halt and reverse …