Prevention of agricultural land degradation due to the natural or anthropogenic impacts and recovery of degraded lands have recently become among the strategic targets of many countries. In this context, the concept of land degradation neutrality (LDN)
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Land Degradation Neutrality: State and Trend of Degradation at the Subnational Level in Mexico
Identifying degraded lands and degradation trends is essential to determine measures that contribute to avoiding, reducing, and reversing the rate of deterioration of natural resources.
Itzel Arroyo +3 more
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Unpacking Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN), An Emerging Paradigm to Conserve Land Systems’ Sustainability in the 21st Century? Meta-analysis of Challenges and Opportunities [PDF]
The UN Sustainable Development Goals specifically note the growing importance of land degradation management and mitigation strategies, advocating for global collaboration and innovative research and policy outlook.
A. Kesavan, H. Kaur and S. Chaudhuri
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Soil organic carbon commitments under three Rio Conventions: Opportunities for integration
Agricultural land-based measures to protect and sequester soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks are increasingly recognized and advocated for their benefits to address climate change, tackle food security, support ecosystem restoration, and maintain ...
Liesl Wiese-Rozanov
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Monitoring land degradation (LD) to improve the measurement of the sustainable development goal (SDG) 15.3.1 indicator (“proportion of land that is degraded over a total land area”) is key to ensure a more sustainable future.
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Land Degradation Neutrality — the modern approach for land management and policy-making
The land reform affected all the countries of the post-Soviet space and in the number of cases led to land degradation, as indicated in scientific literature and in the state reports.
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Agency shifts in agricultural land governance and their implications for land degradation neutrality [PDF]
Given current land degradation trends, Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN, SDG Target 15.3) by 2030 could be difficult to attain. Solutions to avoid, reduce, and reverse land degradation are not being implemented at sufficiently large scales, pointing to ...
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Land degradation neutrality: Testing the indicator in a temperate agricultural landscape
Land degradation directly affects around 25% of land globally, undermining progress on most of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), particularly target 15.3. To assess land degradation, SDG indicator 15.3.1 combines sub-indicators of productivity, soil carbon and land cover.
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Oasification and Desertification under the Framework of Land Degradation Neutrality [PDF]
To meet population growth, the excessive abstraction of water resources for irrigating water-intensive crops has become an increasing crisis in arid regions of Northwest China.
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Global land degradation hotspots based on multiple methods and indicators
Land degradation is a major impediment to achieving sustainable development. However, there is currently no harmonized global map of land degradation status and hotspots. This paper aims to obtain the status and hotspots map of global land degradation by
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