Understanding the cost of inaction and beneftis of action are important in order for all stakeholders to be able to make sound, informed decisions about the amount and type of investments in land they make. Even though techniques for sustainable land management are known, many barriers remain and the financial and economic aspects are often put forward as primary obstacles. If the full value of land is not understood by all stakeholders, it may not be sustainable managed, leaving future generations with diminished choices and options to secure human and environmental well-being.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2015Global
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2020Northern Africa, Western Asia
Dust storms are capable of transporting sediment over thousands of kilometers, but due to the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s proximity to the Sahara Desert, the region is one of the dustiest in the world. While natural sources such as the Sahara are the main contributors to dust storms in MENA, land-use changes and human-induced climate change has added anthropogenic sources as well.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2018Global
The current context in the Sahel-Saharan Band is clearly dominated by recurrent issues of desertification, land degradation and climate change.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2012Global
This report suggests that a new and explicit goal of sustainable development to be agreed as a result of Rio+20 should be the reduction of the rate of land degradation to achieve land degradation neutrality, which we refer to as “Zero Net Land Degradation” or ZNLD.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2013Sub-Saharan Africa
Few development challenges in Africa are as pressing and controversial as land ownership and its persistent gap between rich and poor communities. With a profound demographic shift in Africa from rural areas to the cities where half of all Africans will live by 2050, these gaps will become steadily more pronounced as governments and communities rise to the challenge of growing enough aff ordable nutritious food for all families to thrive on the continent. In some countries in the region, these gaps—allied as they are with high
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2019Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Algeria, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, Senegal, South Sudan, Chad, Africa
The support plan for the Sahel is a regional approach to collectively address the root causes of disruptions such as poverty, migration and youth unemployment, climate change, insecurity, governance and institutional issues in the region. In this report an overview of the current situation for each of the priority areas of the UN Support Plan is presented to demonstrate that the full implementation of the plan could utilize an existing momentum of development not seen in decades in the Sahel.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2014Global
Efficient land governance has long been recognized as a major driver of sustainable and equitable
development. Carried out effectively, it can enable us to address critical challenges such as those of climate
change, urbanization, gender equality, and food security. But the technical complexity of land administration,
together with institutional and political hurdles, often made the governance of land weak and ineffective,
thereby reinforcing deep-seated inequalities and creating inertia, instead of contributing to growth and -
Library ResourceReports & ResearchMarch, 2010
Sustainable economic development is essential for hundreds of millions of poor households in rural areas. This book represents a merger of environmental science and rural development economics. It elucidates the linkage between rational choice theory and theories on land use change. It builds a quantitative framework to connect the environmental method of Material Flow Analysis to basic issues of rural development such as agricultural intensification and food security.
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Library ResourceConference Papers & ReportsDecember, 2009
Vanuit het regionaal economisch perspectief is voor het Rijk een beperkt aantal locaties van belang waar de primaire productie, de handel en de distributie van tuinbouw zich ruimtelijk gebundeld hebben. Deze locaties zijn Greenports genaamd. Wat betreft Greenport Venlo, wordt aangetoond hoe nieuwe samenwerkingsverbanden een volstrekt nieuwe methode hanteren om innovatie en duurzame doelen na te streven bij regionale ontwikkeling.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2012
In de komende decennia zal de bevolkingsgroei in Nederland geleidelijk tot stilstand komen, waarna waarschijnlijk een daling zal inzetten. De groei verschilt per regio, en als sommige regio's blijven groeien moeten andere noodzakelijkerwijs krimpen. In sommige regio's is de bevolking al aan het dalen, en andere krijgen in de nabije toekomst met krimp te maken. Dit proces zal op regionaal niveau aanzienlijke sociale en economische gevolgen hebben.
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