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… Ecosystem Based Approaches … the output of collaboration between the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management, World Commission on Environmental Law, … that 22 year period. In this assessment cropland and forest land were disproportionately degraded: 19% of … mosaics; 43% of degrading land was forestland even though forest occupies only 28% of the world’s land surface. The …

… that, far too often, we take for granted. A great bulk of ecosystem services are delivered by the world‘s finite land … the last ten years, approximately 5.2 million hectares of forest has been destroyed each year. 36 • Land degradation … America) have the potential for land rehabilitation and forest restoration. 45 • The cost of land restoration ranges …