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Articles on Land degradation
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Insects are essential to the functioning of land and freshwater ecosystems but species populations are being lost at a rapid rate globally.
Soil and water conservation projects can create fertile farmlands and change migration patterns linked to land degradation in Burkina Faso.
Building connections and grassroots efforts will sustain conservation over the long term.
Parts of Ethiopia will likely be hotter, drier, and more water stressed - with consequences for human and economic development.
South Africa’s rural communities where mining licenses have been granted are often excluded from consultations and bear the brunt having their environment and livelihoods destroyed.
Four of the five contemporary migrations in East Africa are severely threatened and have virtually collapsed.
South Africa needs to wean itself off coal in a way that protects jobs and the environment.
A Land Degradation Surveillance framework could solve this problem by systematically measuring and tracking indicators of land health in Africa.
A new international report makes for bleak reading on the state of the world’s soils. It predicts that land degradation will displace up to 700 million people worldwide by mid-century.
Top contributors
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Soil Systems Scientist, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Professor of Environmental Engineering, University of Sydney
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Researcher, Agricultural Research Council
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PhD candidate Department of Environmental & Geographical Science, University of Cape Town
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Senior Researcher and Statistician, University of Hohenheim
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Guest Research Scholar, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
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Research Chair, African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town
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Lecturer, Department of Planning, University for Development Studies
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Professor of Environmental Science, University of South Africa
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University of Oxford
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Senior Research Scholar Exploratory Modeling of Human-natural Systems Research Group - Advancing Systems Analysis Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
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Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Node Leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Indigenous and Environmental Histories and Futures, Flinders University
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Postdoctoral researcher in African Climate Science, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
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Professor and ARC Future Fellow, Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
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Senior Scientist and head of the GeoScience lab, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)