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Achieving land degradation neutrality: The role of SLM knowledge in evidence-based decision-making

open access: yesEnvironmental Science and Policy, 2019
WOCAT – The World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies with its unique methodology and global Sustainable Land Management (SLM) database - can help promote scaling out of SLM and thus contribute to land degradation neutrality.
Hanspeter Liniger   +2 more
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Women’s land rights in Ethiopia: supporting land degradation neutrality

open access: yesGender & Development
Emerging evidence and growing global consensus in policy and advocacy spaces increasingly link secure and gender-equitable land tenure rights to more effective, just, and efficient action to address the urgent desertification, land degradation,
Beth Roberts, Jennifer Brown
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Land degradation: Multiple environmental consequences and routes to neutrality

open access: yesCurrent Opinion in Environmental Science and Health, 2018
Degradation is currently affecting 25% of Earth's land and 40% of Earth's agricultural land. The environmental consequences of land degradation are vast, including amplified soil losses, water quality deterioration, biodiversity decline and degradation ...
Fernando António Leal Pacheco   +2 more
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Sub-chapter 3.5.1. Land degradation neutrality

open access: yes, 2016
Land degradation, desertification and land degradation neutrality: definitions Land degradation is a threat to sustainable development. The term refers to both: The decline in biological and/or economic resilience of land when exposed to stress and/or ...
Jean-Luc Chotte   +3 more
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Moving towards a twin-agenda: Gender equality and land degradation neutrality

open access: yesEnvironmental Science and Policy, 2018
The conceptual framework for Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) highlights that land degradation in developing countries impacts men and women differently, mainly due to unequal access to land, water, credit, extension services and technology.
Graciela Metternicht
exaly   +3 more sources

Land degradation neutrality under the SDGs: National and international implementation of the land degradation neutral world target

elni Review, 2015
On World Soil Day, December 5, 2013, the UN General Assembly announced that 2015 marked the ‘International Year of Soils’. This announcement aimed to promote the protection of soil and increase awareness and understanding of its importance. It seems that soil is now, after decades defined by a lack of attention and awareness, finally receiving a ...
Elisatbeth Dooley   +2 more
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LAND DEGRADATION NEUTRALITY: THE BIBLIOMETRIC LANDSCAPE

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The article highlights the results of theoretical analysis of trends, current status and bibliometric landscape of publication activity in the field of land degradation neutrality in the world based on the Scopus database. It has been established that if the current average annual growth rate of publication activity is maintained, the projected annual ...
A. Kucher, S. Vasylenko, U. Ivaniuk
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Land Degradation Neutrality: Indian Examples

Agropedology, 2019
Discussions around climate change at times ignore soils, even though the major soil-forming factor is the climate (Bhattacharyya et al. 2014). Because land mass is fixed in quantity, there is an ever-increasing competition to control the fixed quantity of land resources in terms of their services for living organisms.
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Sustainable Land Management and Land Degradation Neutrality

Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2022
O. V. Andreeva   +2 more
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Land Degradation Neutrality: Will Africa Achieve It? Institutional Solutions to Land Degradation and Restoration in Africa

2016
Land has gained stature as a natural resource to be protected since the 2012 Rio+20 Summit. The decision to “strive to achieve a land-degradation neutral world in the context of sustainable development” (United Nations 2012, p. 54), along with the understanding that “this should act to catalyze financial resources from a range of public and private ...
Luc Gnacadja, Liesl Wiese
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