Nuclear techniques can help protect soil from degradation, which affects 1.9 billion hectares of land, a whopping 65 per cent of global soil resources. Various projects by the IAEA and the Food and ...

Land decay is undermining the well-being of two-fifths of all the people on Earth, or around 3.2 billion people, according to an Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem ...

Conclusion To measure this, the report applies a debt-based approach, comparing current values of three key indicators—soil ...

A new study led by Prof. Li Xiaosong from the Aerospace Information Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has evaluated land productivity dynamics (LPD) across the African Great Green ...

Land degradation and climate change pose enormous risks to global food security. Land degradation increases the vulnerability of agroecological systems to climate change and reduces the effectiveness ...

An environment and natural resources management project has created sustainable livelihoods in rural communities by reducing pressure on the environment and increasing community appreciation of ...

Soil erosion is a major worldwide threat to agro-ecosystem sustainability and land productivity. Fallout radionuclides and stable isotopes are used to measure magnitudes and sources of soil erosion, ...

Agriculture, forestry and other land uses together account for about 62% of Africa's greenhouse gas emissions. At the same ...

Mozambique is one of the few sub-Saharan countries with significant forest cover. Native forests and woodlands cover 43% of the country, harboring high biodiversity, unique landscapes and extensive ...

The way we use land drives climate change and climate change adds stress to land systems and so worsens existing risks to people and nature. The food system is contributing around a quarter of global ...