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Global Land Outlook

… GLOBAL LAN D OUTLOOK First Edition GLOBAL LAND OUTLOOK First Edition ©UNCCD, 2017 Secretariat of the … conflict. Over 1.3 billion people are trapped on degrading agricultural land: farmers on marginal land, especially in … in the developing countries, are trapped on degrading agricultural land, exposed to climate stress, and therefore …
25 May 2026 Literature

Law for water management: a guide to concepts and effective approaches

… permits held. catchment (watershed): a discrete area of land with a common drainage system; includes both the water … the amount of nutrients (fertilizer) flowing from an agricultural watershed into a body of water in a given amount … water pollution caused by industrial contamination and agricultural practices, leading to the leaching of …
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Guidebook for policy and legislative development on conservation and sustainable use of freshwater resources

… that recognizes the interlinkages—for example, between land and water, agriculture and water, technology and water, … water legislation differently than those for which the agricultural sector is dominant. Countries with significant … Principal sources of pollution include untreated sewage, agricultural run-off and chemical substances. These affect …
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Water in drylands - Adapting to scarcity through integrated management

… rights and governance for dryland water resources and land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Establish … that can be experienced (UN/ISDR, 2007): meteorological; agricultural; and hydrological. Drought assessment frameworks … modality of rainfall (number of rainy seasons per year). • agricultural drought is defined as insufficiency of water to …
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Spring: Managing groundwater sustainability

… Management & Protection 4.5 Alignment of Macro-Economic Agricultural Policy Incentives Chapter 5. Social Organisation … unwanted impacts on others. Zoning is used to ensure that land uses are compatible with protection of vulnerable … Under the ‘polluter-pays-principle’, industrial or agricultural enterprises are charged for the water pol- …
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GEO yearbook 2003

… found significant increases in the rate of melting of land and sea ice from the Arctic to Mount Everest to the … its State of Food and Agriculture report, endorsing agricultural biotechnology and highlighting its potential … and emerging political interest, particularly for boosting agricultural productivity in Africa. The International Treaty …
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Value : Counting ecosystems as water infrastructure

… and disadvantages of different choices in uses of land, water, resources or investments. Applying a simple … water supplies for urban, industrial and irrigated agricultural use. In total, wetland goods and services have … affording the country the highest irrigated to rain-fed agricultural land ratio in the world. Unsurprisingly, water …
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Issues in water law reform

… distributed surface water collecting or falling on private land; • groundwater percolating through land. Arid … of land degradation in Australia. Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics 31(2): 155-174. Meadows, D. (1996), … of the most important components of this programme, and agricultural land tenure, with all its unfairness and lack of …
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Integration of groundwater management into transboundary basin organizations in Africa - Training manual

… Assessment Centre ■■ imawesa – Improved Management of Agricultural Water in Eastern and Southern Africa ■■ IWMI – … Resources Assessment Centre Improved Management of Agricultural Water in Eastern and Southern Africa Information … of micro- and macro-policy issues in- fluencing water and land use, and represents one of the major global challenges …
25 May 2026 Literature

Pay : Establishing payments for watershed services

… 2. Valuing and Managing Watershed Services 21 2.1 Linking land and water use to downstream benefits 21 2.2 Valuation of … and tools that relate development to conservation, agricultural and industrial production, and the increasing … storage capacity (m3/m2) • Pollutant concentrations • Agricultural water use (m3/ha) • Fish stock (kg/m3) • Amounts …
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