Climate policy integration in the land use sector: Mitigation, adaptation and sustainable development linkages
Healthy soils for productive and resilient agricultural landscapes
Healthy soils are essential for productive and resilient agricultural systems. They are also increasingly recognized as a means to mitigate climate change risks. While solutions for restoring degraded soils and landscapes do exist, improved knowledge and tools are needed to enhance their impacts over time and at scale. WLE has assessed the impacts of various land restoration initiatives and developed a range of tools to better tailor and target investments and interventions to local contexts.
Estimating smallholder opportunity costs of REDD+: A pantropical analysis from households to carbon and back
Forest cover mapping in post-Soviet Central Asia using multi-resolution remote sensing imagery
What a difference 4 decades make: Deforestation in Borneo since 1973
Managing peatlands in Indonesia: Challenges and opportunities for local and global communities
Dilemma of nitrogen management for future food security in sub-Saharan Africa – a review
Food security entails having sufficient, safe, and nutritious food to meet dietary needs. The need to optimise nitrogen (N) use for nutrition security while minimising environmental risks in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is overdue. Challenges related to managing N use in SSA can be associated with both insufficient use and excessive loss, and thus the continent must address the ‘too little’ and ‘too much’ paradox. Too little N is used in food production (80% of countries have N deficiencies), which has led to chronic food insecurity and malnutrition.
Estrategia Sectorial de la Cadena de Cacao en Guaviare, con Enfoque Agroambiental y Cero Deforestación
Evaluating MODIS-vegetation continuous field products to assess tree cover change and forest fragmentation in India: a multi-scale satellite remote sensing approach
Monitoring the changes in forest-cover and understanding the dynamics of the forest is becoming increasingly important for the sustainable management of forest ecosystems. This paper uses temporal MODIS Vegetation Continuous Field (MODIS-VCF) to monitor the tree cover change in the Indian region over a period of 6 years (2000–2005). Pixel-based linear regression model is developed to identify rate of deforestation and fragmentation at landscape level. The regression parameters viz., slope, offset and variance are used to identify threshold between forest and non-forest classes.
Unsustainable development pathways caused by tropical deforestation
Global sustainability strategies require assessing whether countries’ development trajectories are sustainable over time. However, sustainability assessments are limited because losses of natural capital and its ecosystem services through deforestation have not been comprehensively incorporated into national accounts. We update the national accounts of 80 nations that underwent tropical deforestation from 2000 to 2012 and evaluate their development trajectories using weak and strong sustainability criteria.