Land degradation is one of the major causes of low and in many places declining agricultural productivity and continuing food insecurity and rural poverty in Ethiopia. Achieving sustainable pathways out of the downward spiral of land degradation and poverty requires that farmers adopt profitable and sustainable land management practices, or pursue alternative livelihood strategies that are less...

Land degradation in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria has been aggravated by deforestation with resultant losses of vital biodiversity. In this paper, we provided an assessment of land degradation with drivers of deforestation in selected states in the Niger Delta. Data were collected with multi-stage sampling procedure and analyzed using descriptive and Tobit regression methods. Results show t...

Land degradation is recognized as one of the major threats to the buffer zones of protected areas (PAs) in Vietnam. In particular, the expansion of land degradation into the PAs is exerting pressure on biodiversity conservation efforts. This degradation is partially the result of mismanagement: the utilization of the land is often unmatched with the inherent suitability of the land. Identificat...

Drylands, which occupy more than 40% of the Earth’s land surface, are highly susceptible to degradation. It is important to understand causes, mechanisms, and environmental consequences of dryland ecosystem degradation. Land use policies are known to play a critical role in driving land cover changes, as well as in mitigating land degradation and promoting sustainable development in drylands. W...

this study was conducted to investigate the impact of land use change on some of carbon components in safashahr area, fars province. four land uses (destroyed rangeland, agricultural land, new and old apple orchard) were selected. sampling was done randomly from two depths (0-20 and 20-50 cm) of each land use. particulate organic matter (pom) and extractable carbohydrate by hot water were measu...

Acknowledgments I would like to acknowledge the financial assistance provided by the Rural Research and Development Corporation for the project DAN92A, which partly funded this work. This report was prepared over a number of years and as is evident from the references some parts of the work led to joint papers with a number of other staff from NSW Agriculture including The objective of this rep...

human activities induced changes in land cover/use have extensive impacts on the landscape. in recent years, these changes had an increasingly growth due to irrational use of the natural resources in iran. hence, considering the negative effects of the inappropriate use of land and land-use change, understanding of the landscape changes over time is necessary to planning and implementation of s...

Planning for land use development, protection of good quality agricultural land, land degradation management and many other resource management issues requires reliable land resource information. Enhanced Resource Assessment (ERA) techniques were employed to rapidly assess and predict soil and landscape attributes throughout Cooloola Shire in South East Queensland. ERA uses landscape modelling ...

In Australia, desertification tends to be associated with land degradation in the rangelands. It results from unsustainable land use and the impact of European settlement, rather than changing climate. Desertification can, however, be exacerbated or triggered by climate variability. Some of the degradation occurred in the early stages of pastoral development but the problem has continued. The e...