Indigenous knowledge and rangelands' biodiversity conservation in Tanzania: success and failure

IS Selemani - Biodiversity and conservation, 2020 - Springer
Tanzania is one of the African countries endowed with diverse rangeland's biological
resources hosting 6 out of 25 globally known biodiversity hotspots. Despite, government …

Economics of sustainable land management

A Mirzabaev, E Nkonya, J von Braun - Current Opinion in Environmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
Degradation of soil and land resources is a critical global problem. It is widespread not only
in drylands and cropped areas, but in most agro-ecologies and biomes around the world …

Assessment of land degradation in semiarid Tanzania—Using multiscale remote sensing datasets to support sustainable development goal 15.3

J Reith, G Ghazaryan, F Muthoni, O Dubovyk - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Monitoring land degradation (LD) to improve the measurement of the sustainable
development goal (SDG) 15.3. 1 indicator (“proportion of land that is degraded over a total …

Distributional impacts of soil erosion on agricultural productivity and welfare in Malawi

S Asfaw, G Pallante, A Palma - Ecological Economics, 2020 - Elsevier
We investigate the economic distributional effects of soil loss in Malawi, where erosion
deprives rural households of the natural capital necessary to boost agricultural production …

[PDF][PDF] Does agroforestry technology adoption affect income inequality among arable crop farmers in Southwest, Nigeria? A gender perspective

LO Oparinde, AI Olutumise… - Sarhad Journal of …, 2023 - researchgate.net
Variations in agroforestry technology adoption and level of income inequality across
genders have not been given adequate attention in the literature. Hence, this study …

Rethinking sustainable land management planning: Understanding the social and economic drivers of farmer decision-making in Africa

L Emerton, KA Snyder - Land Use Policy, 2018 - Elsevier
Land degradation is a critical challenge to sustainable development. This paper examines
factors that shape farmer decision-making around sustainable land management (SLM) …

[PDF][PDF] Land degradation and the sustainable development goals: Threats and potential remedies

PLG Vlek, A Khamzina, LD Tamene - 2017 - cgspace.cgiar.org
Land comprises a range of biophysical components such as soil, water, flora, and fauna,
embedded in a landscape shaped by its geomorphology and subjected to a climate that is …

Land degradation neutrality and carbon neutrality: approaches, synergies, and challenges

MA Gunawardena, E Lokupitiya… - Frontiers in Forests and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Land is being degraded rapidly worldwide. United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification in 2015 has invited countries to formulate voluntary targets to achieve Land …

Responses to halt land degradation and to restore degraded land

R Pandit, J Parrota, Y Anker, E Coudel… - 2018 - researchspace.csir.co.za
The most cost-effective approach to reduce land degradation in the long run is to follow the
adage “prevention is better than cure”(well established){6.3. 1, 6.3. 2, 6.4. 2}. The economic …

Small farms: changing structures and roles in economic development

J von Braun, A Mirzabaev - Available at SSRN 2672900, 2015 - papers.ssrn.com
Small farms are the largest employment and small business group among the poor. Their
businesses use mostly labor and local resources and face local constraints, but at the same …