Increasing global demand for food and the need to address climate change risk make it ever more urgent to both protect ecosystems and use land more productively and efficiently. Brazil is a key player in this context and has made significant gains in recent decades.
Niger’s natural resource management policies and institutions in colonial and post-independence times have discouraged landowners to plant or protect trees. The consequent land clearing led to severe scarcity of tree products.
Global land use plays a central role in determining our food, material and energy supply.
Our findings, based on satellite imagery data, show that land degradation hotspots cover about 30% of the global land area, where about 3.2 billion people reside.
The objective of the Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Productivity Improvement Program Project for Pakistan is to improve productivity of water use in irrigated agriculture.