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Land degradation and the Sustainable Development Goals: Threats and potential remedies
The concern for the well-being of land is often directly related to one’s proximity to the land, be it physically, economically or culturally. Land is more precious if one’s livelihood depend on it immediately than if one ...
Role of climate change awareness in sustainable soil nutrient management by smallholder farms in Burkina Faso
Climate change effects are threats to the livelihood of Sub-Saharan smallholder farms. Farmers’
response and readiness to take adaptive measures depend on how they perceive (perception) and
moreover understand and recognize ...
Agricultural livelihood types and type-specific drivers of production diversification: an evidence from Karauzyak, Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan
In presence of climatic variability and risks involved in agricultural production for rural
people in Aral Sea region, current research extends the sustainable livelihoods framework to
investigate the factors that discriminate ...
Program Theory of change and Impact Pathway - Last Update 2015
A theory of change (ToC) describes how a research-in-development project or program induces expected outcomes and impacts by describing the causal interrelationships from the project/program’s activities to outputs, outcomes ...
Scaling Up Sustainable Land Management and Restoration of Degraded Land
With current rates of land degradation reaching
ten to twelve million ha per year, there is an
urgent need to scale up and out successful,
profitable and resource-efficient sustainable
land management practices to maintain ...
Agropastoral livelihood system typology for coping with socio-ecological diversity: A demonstrative case in Karauzyak, Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan
Smallholder farms’ populations are characterized by their heterogeneity giving the diversity of farms’ livelihood settings. Integrated farming system modelling therefore requires a preliminary clear identification of the ...
Modalities for Scaling up Sustainable Land Management and Restoration of Degraded Land
To tackle inter-connected global challenges of population growth and migration, climate change, biodiversity loss, and degrading land and water resources, changes in land use and management are needed at a global scale. ...
Sustaining Moroccan Oasis Agricultural System through Small Mechanization Inputs
Saharan oases can be highly artificial ecosystems, capable of sustaining agriculture under arid climatic conditions; the traditional
system requires some degree of collective management for plants, soil and water but has ...
Socio-ecological Informatics Platform for Global Agri-food Systems Sustainability: Connecting Big Data, Systems Thinking, International Community of Practice to Big System Image
An Express of Interest (EoI) aims at developing and using an agri-food system informatics (hereafter referred as agro-informatics) platform that promotes geo-informatics, interdisciplinary interoperability of multidimensional ...
Improving the date production chain in the Moroccan oases through small mechanization inputs to support the governmental development strategies
In Moroccan oases, date palm agricultural operations are mainly
manual and seldom implemented, contributing to palm grove
degradation.
The introduction of small mechanization may reduce
drudgery, encourage/attract youths, ...