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Past assessments of land degradation have focused on the biophysical impacts rather than on the overall societal and economic costs and benefits of degradation prevention. Additionally, past studies have largely addressed how land degradation impacts on-site productivity while paying limited attention to its off-site costs, which often make it a transnational and global issue. To address these…

The State of Food Insecurity in the World 2011 highlights the differential impacts that the world food crisis of 2006-08 had on different countries, with the poorest being most affected. While some large countries were able to deal with the worst of the crisis, people in many small import-dependent countries experienced large price increases that, even when only temporary, can have permanent…

The Great Green Wall is an initiative spearheaded by African Heads of State to combat soil degradation in a zone spanning Senegal to Djibouti. The wall is a visual concept symbolizing the collective work we all have to do in order to combat environmental degradation, in particular desertification and the poverty in rural areas. The GEF CEO answers six questions about this initiative to combat…

Open Journal of Soil Science (OJSS) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in soil science. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of soil science.

Open Journal of Forestry (OJF) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in forestry. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of forestry.

Agriculture (ISSN 2077-0472) is an international and cross-disciplinary scholarly and scientific open access journal on the science of cultivating the soil, growing, harvesting crops, and raising livestock.Subject Areas cultivation of crops and plant breeding; sustainable agriculture; organic agriculture; industrial agriculture; intensive farming; animal production; seasonal agriculture…