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Soil Degradation in India: Challenges and Potential Solutions

Sustainability

Peer-reviewed publication
January, 2015
India
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
Urban Tenure
Forest Tenure
land degradation
Soil degradation in India is estimated to be occurring on 147 million hectares (Mha) of land, including 94 Mha from water erosion, 16 Mha from acidification, 14 Mha from flooding, 9 Mha from wind erosion, 6 Mha from salinity, and 7 Mha from a combination of factors. This is extremely serious because India supports 18% of the world’s human population and 15% of the world’s livestock population, but has only 2.4% of the world’s land area. Despite its low proportional land area, India ranks second worldwide in farm output.
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Stories of success: Strengthening and scaling up integrated natural resource management in the Middle East and North Africa

Institutional & promotional materials
March, 2014
Northern Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, Southern Asia, Iran, Western Asia, Jordan, Yemen
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
land degradation
rangelands
farmers
This document is a synthesis of outcomes from a knowledge process that was a collaborative effort involving researchers, scientists, and technicians from Iran, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen.
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MENARID Gateway: Strengthening and Scaling-up Integrated Natural Resource Management across MENA

Institutional & promotional materials
March, 2014
Northern Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, Central Asia, Uzbekistan, Southern Asia, Iran, Western Asia, Jordan, Yemen
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land degradation
natural resources management
MENA’s permanent cropland – currently at less than 6% of the total land area – is shrinking due to serious land degradation and recurrent droughts. The region faces the most severe water shortage in the world with annual renewable water resources per capita estimated to decline from 1,045 m3/yr in 1997 to 740 m3/yr in 2015.
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BMP implementations in Himalayan context: can a locally-calibrated SWAT assessment direct efforts?

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Pakistan
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land cover
land use
land degradation
Soil erosion due to accelerating runoff in various land cover types pose a serious threat to the long term sustainability of the fragile Himalayan landscape characterized by subsistence farming. Delimitation of high runoff zones, fostering soil erosion in the agricultural dominated watersheds is thus a necessity for watershed managers, NGO’s, urban planners, policy makers, and municipal administrations. The approach is practical, SWAT is a straightforward modeling system using GIS information. The BMP is also a very practical approach to mitigation of runoff accumulation on sub basin.
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BMP implementations in Himalayan context: can a locally-calibrated SWAT assessment direct efforts?

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
Pakistan, Asia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land degradation
geographical information systems
Soil erosion due to accelerating runoff in various land cover types pose a serious threat to the long term sustainability of the fragile Himalayan landscape characterized by subsistence farming. Delimitation of high runoff zones, fostering soil erosion in the agricultural dominated watersheds is thus a necessity for watershed managers, NGO’s, urban planners, policy makers, and municipal administrations. The approach is practical, SWAT is a straightforward modeling system using GIS information. The BMP is also a very practical approach to mitigation of runoff accumulation on sub basin.
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Acacia nilotica-based silvipastoral systems for resource conservation and improved productivity from degraded lands of the Lower Himalayas

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2014
India
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land cover
land use
land degradation
High population density and unscientific land use practices have induced severe land degradation in the fragile Lower Himalayan ecosystem of India. Land cover management has been an effective strategy in managing land degradation through the reduction of water, soil and nutrient losses and improvement in soil fertility and quality.
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Informe del 22.º período de sesiones del Comité Forestal

Reports & Research
August, 2014
Angola, Burkina Faso, Benin, Zambia, Chile, Burundi, China, Indonesia, Bulgaria, Bolivia, Austria, Congo, Bangladesh, Guyana, Armenia, Colombia, Kenya, Australia, Uruguay, Botswana, Argentina, Chad, Togo
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
deforestation
forest land
land degradation
Meeting Name: Committee on Forestry
Meeting symbol/code: COFO/2014/REP
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Report of the Twenty-second session of the Committee on Forestry

Reports & Research
August, 2014
Egypt, Bangladesh, United States of America, Zambia, Peru, Indonesia, Austria, Guyana, Republic of Korea, Uruguay, New Zealand, Kenya, Italy, Belgium, Japan, Gabon, Brazil, Argentina, Russia, Chad, Togo, Norway, Greece
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Forest Tenure
deforestation
forest land
land degradation
Meeting Name: Committee on Forestry
Meeting symbol/code: COFO/2014/REP
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India : Alleviating Poverty through Forest Development

Reports & Research
September, 2014
India
agriculture
climate change
deforestation
encroachment
forest conservation
forest land
forest law
forestry
land area
land degradation
land use
private forests
sustainable development
urban areas
This case study, one of six evaluations
in a series of country case studies, aims to understand the
implementation of the 1991 Forest Strategy in World Bank
operations and to obtain the views of the various
stakeholders in the country about the involvement of the
Bank. Each country study examines the overall development of
the country's forest sector. This naturally includes
the environmental impacts on forests, such as degradation,
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India : Environmental Sustainability in the 1990s, A Country Assistance Evaluation

September, 2014
India
decentralization
deforestation
forestry
land degradation
land tenure
protected areas
sustainable development
urban population
waste (abuse)
India's environmental problems
are deep-rooted and severe. Estimates of annual
environmental damage range from 4.5 percent to 8 percent of
gross domestic product (GDP), in line with annual economic
growth. Since 1990 the World Bank has lent India 1.94
billion dollars for 19 projects to mitigate environmental
damage and another 97 million dollars was granted under
global environmental facility (GEF) and Montreal protocol