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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2016
    Global

    Soil indicators may be used for assessing both land
    suitability for restoration and the effectiveness of restoration
    strategies in restoring ecosystem functioning and services. In
    this review paper, several soil indicators, which can be used
    to assess the effectiveness of ecological restoration strategies
    in dryland ecosystems at different spatial and temporal
    scales, are discussed. The selected indicators represent the
    different viewpoints of pedology, ecology, hydrology, and
    land management. Two overall outcomes stem from the review.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2016
    Namibia, Southern Africa

    Achieving cooperation in natural resource management is always
    a challenge when incentives exist for an individual to maximise her short term
    benefits at the cost of a group. We study a public good social dilemma in water
    infrastructure provision on land reform farms in Namibia. In the context of the
    Namibian land reform, arbitrarily mixed groups of livestock farmers have to share
    the operation and maintenance of water infrastructure. Typically, water is mainly
    used for livestock production, and livestock numbers are subject to high fluctuations

  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2016
    Mali, Western Africa

    Decentralized governance of natural resources is considered one of the key strategies for promoting sustainable
    management of natural resources at local level. Effective decentralized natural resource management requires
    strong local natural resource institutions. Therefore, strengthening local institutions governing the management
    of natural resources is one of the core principles of decentralization reforms in Francophone West Africa
    countries. This study assessed the existing local institutions (rules, norms and or local conventions) governing

  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    September, 2018
    Ethiopia, Eastern Africa

    This paper argues and provides empirical evidence that trade-offs and/or complementarities are
    inherent in technological options that shape the adoption of and land-use decisions in production
    systems involving multiple crops in Ethiopia. By applying a fractional response model to a
    nationally representative sample of 1 469 households, this paper found that, while there are tradeoffs
    in the land-use decisions regarding barley and potatoes, there are complementarities in the

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    November, 2014
    Kenya, Eastern Africa

    Wildlife populations are declining severely in many protected areas and unprotected pastoral areas of Africa.
    Rapid large-scale land use changes, poaching, climate change, rising population pressures, governance, policy, economic
    and socio-cultural transformations and competition with livestock all contribute to the declines in abundance. Here we
    analyze the population dynamics of 15 wildlife and four livestock species monitored using aerial surveys from 1977 to

  6. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    November, 2006
    Morocco, Tunisia, Northern Africa

    A tragedy of the commons is unfolding in the rangelands of West Asia and North Africa (WANA), where land is either public or collectively owned. Overgrazing under this land tenure has led to severe land degradation and soil erosion. Poverty and environmental degradation are intertwined in this low-rainfall region, where more than 38 million people live in rural areas and depend mainly on agriculture. Traditional rangeland grazing provides fodder in winter and spring, while in summer and autumn the animals browse cereal stubble and other crop residues.

  7. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    October, 2015
    Global

    The Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) initiative seeks to develop a science basis for policy actions to address land degradation. The purpose of this chapter is to provide with a conceptual framework and sound and feasible methodological standards for ELD assessments at global and national levels. Only if some basic standards are identified and adhered to, comparative assessments can be conducted between countries and useful aggregation of findings, based on these case studies, can be achieved.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    May, 2016
    India, Southern Asia

    Soil organic carbon (SOC) and rainfall are generally
    positively related, whereas a negative relationship
    between soil inorganic carbon (SIC) and rainfall with
    some exception is observed. Land use pattern in black
    soil region (BSR) of the semi-arid tropical (SAT)
    India, consists of 80% under agriculture, followed by
    forest, horticulture, wasteland and permanent fallow.
    For sustainable agriculture on these soils, there is a
    concern about their low OC status, which warrants
    fresh initiatives to enhance their OC status by suitable

  9. Library Resource
    Videos
    November, 2017
    Global

    Under the Economics of Land degradation initiative (ELD), scientists from ICARDA are collaborating with developments to develop the GeOC tool. It is a new web-based GIS tool to define context specific options for sustainable land management required to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN).
    This video illustrates the interface of the web GIS component the GeOC tool.
    To check the GeOC tool, please follow this link: http://geoc.mel.cgiar.org

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