2017年8月17日 · Rural areas are abandoned for reasons that include mobility and technology, poverty, biased policy and inadequate land management. As early as the eighteenth century, Europe’s Industrial...

2018年11月13日 · Over 2000–2010 the rural poor on degrading agricultural land increased in low-income countries and in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Although degradation threatens the livelihoods of the...

Land degradation is a global problem largely related to the agricultural sector, general deforestation and climate change. Causes include: Land clearance, such as clearcutting, overlogging and deforestation; Agricultural activities such as:

Land degradation is a global problem that particularly impacts the poor rural inhabitants of low and middle-income countries. We improve upon existing literature by estimating the extent of rural populations in 2000 and 2010 globally on degrading and improving agricultural land, taking into account the role of market access, and analyzing the ...

Abject poverty is the plight of so many of our fellow humans. One in five spends their life in urban slums. One in two lacks basic sanitation. Governments around the world have formally recognized universal rights to adequate housing and liv-ing standards. Yet increasing numbers only manage to trade rural for urban desti-tution.

2025年3月15日 · Seeing land rights as the key to lifting up the world’s millions of rural poor people, he pushed authoritarian governments in places like Vietnam and El Salvador, as well as emerging democratic ...

2024年10月11日 · Avoid and reduce land degradation through sustainable land management (SLM). Reverse land degradation through landscape restoration. Address desertification, land degradation, and drought issues, particularly in drylands. Improve the enabling policy and instrumental framework for land degradation neutrality (LDN).

2023年3月1日 · Land degradation is a major challenge to sustainable development and poverty reduction across the world. This paper estimates the contribution of land degradation to the losses in agricultural profits in the four countries in Central Asia: …

2019年2月1日 · The pro-poor land recordation tool (PPLRT) contains a set of design elements developed to improve protection and access to land for the poor, particularly women, youth and vulnerable groups, especially in areas with (rapidly) changing land use.

Developing economies with high concentrations of their populations on fragile lands and in remote areas not only display high rates of rural poverty but also are some of the poorest countries in the world today.