Titlebook: Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement – A Global Assessment for Sustainable Development; Ephraim Nkonya,Alisher Mirzabaev,Joachim

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19168-3Cost of Action and Inaction; Ecosystem Value; Land Degradation; Land Improvement; Total Economic Value

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Economics of Land Degradation and Improvement: An Introduction and Overview,practices on static cropland and grazing land is about 300 billion USD. Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) accounts for the largest share (22 %) of the total global cost of land degradation. Only about 46 % of the cost of land degradation due to LUCC—which accounts for 78 % of the US$300 billion loss—is borne

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Biomass Productivity-Based Mapping of Global Land Degradation Hotspots,ion is most acute and requires priority actions in both in-depth research and management measures to combat land degradation. About 3.2 billion people reside in these degrading areas. However, the number of people affected by land degradation is likely to be higher as more people depend on the conti

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Evaluating Global Land Degradation Using Ground-Based Measurements and Remote Sensing,ogical zones, land cover, and the dataset to be evaluated. This two-tiered approach to sampling ensured a diversity of ground-truth surveys and therefore a robustness of results. Although ground-based surveys are resource and time-intensive, they provide information on both the evolution of the land

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Economics of Land Degradation in Sub-Saharan Africa,rgest share of expenditure on agriculture and natural resource management in most SSA countries, econometric analysis showed that donor funding reduces the cost of land degradation. This positions donors in a position of influencing efforts to combat land degradation in SSA. The fact that SSA has po

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Economics of Land Degradation in Central Asia,er a 30-year horizon, whereas if nothing is done, the resulting losses may equal almost 288 billion USD during the same period. Better access to markets, extension services, secure land tenure, and livestock ownership among smallholder crop producers are found to be major drivers of SLM adoptions.

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Economics of Land Degradation in Argentina,h value biomes. The returns to taking action against land degradation is about US$4 per US$ invested—justifying the need to take action to improve human welfare and environmental protection. The actions against land degradation include investment in restoration of degraded lands and prevention of la