Land degradation and poverty

EB Barbier, JP Hochard - Nature Sustainability, 2018 - nature.com
Land is one of the few productive assets owned by the rural poor, and almost all such
households engage in some form of agriculture. Over 2000–2010 the rural poor on …

Systemic perspectives on scaling agricultural innovations. A review

S Wigboldus, L Klerkx, C Leeuwis, M Schut… - Agronomy for …, 2016 - Springer
Agricultural production involves the scaling of agricultural innovations such as disease-
resistant and drought-tolerant maize varieties, zero-tillage techniques, permaculture …

[HTML][HTML] Managing vulnerability to drought and enhancing livelihood resilience in sub-Saharan Africa: Technological, institutional and policy options

B Shiferaw, K Tesfaye, M Kassie, T Abate… - Weather and climate …, 2014 - Elsevier
Agriculture and the economies of Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are highly sensitive to climatic
variability. Drought, in particular, represents one of the most important natural factors …

Desertification

A Mirzabaev, J Wu, J Evans, F García-Oliva… - 2019 - philpapers.org
Abstract IPCC SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND (SRCCL) Chapter 3:
Climate Change and Land: An IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land …

Environmental sustainability: a case of policy implementation failure?

M Howes, L Wortley, R Potts, A Dedekorkut-Howes… - Sustainability, 2017 - mdpi.com
For a generation, governments around the world have been committed to sustainable
development as a policy goal. This has been supported by an array of new policies ranging …

Ecological restoration as a strategy for mitigating and adapting to climate change: lessons and challenges from Brazil

MMC Bustamante, JS Silva, A Scariot… - … Adaptation Strategies for …, 2019 - Springer
Climate change is a global phenomenon that affects biophysical systems and human well-
being. The Paris Agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate …

Social capital, risk preference and adoption of improved farm land management practices in Ethiopia

T Wossen, T Berger, S Di Falco - Agricultural Economics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Many developing countries grapple with high rates of farmland degradation and low
agricultural productivity amidst increasing climate variability. Considerable efforts have been …

Bibliometric analysis of sustainability papers: Evidence from Environment, Development and sustainability

NOD Ellili - Environment, development and sustainability, 2024 - Springer
This study aims to highlight the current trends in the literature on sustainability by applying a
bibliometric review of papers on sustainability published in Environment, Development and …

Crop diversification as a smallholder livelihood strategy within semi-arid agricultural systems near Mount Kenya

PF McCord, M Cox, M Schmitt-Harsh, T Evans - Land use policy, 2015 - Elsevier
Crop diversification is one strategy that smallholder farmers may employ to reduce their
vulnerability in the face of global environmental change. Diversification not only expands the …

An LCA-based environmental performance of rice production for developing a sustainable agri-food system in Malaysia

SN Harun, MM Hanafiah, NIHA Aziz - Environmental management, 2021 - Springer
This study aims to assess the environmental impacts of conventional and organic rice
cultivations and proposes a sustainable conceptual framework of rice farming based on the …