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Monitoring and assessing land degradation dynamics involves extracting the most relevant information from time series of global satellite observations. The longest available satellite observation datasets with global coverage at 1-km resolution, from, e.g., the SPOT VGT sensor, have a continuous frequent temporal sampling over a long enough period, now 15 years, to allow extraction of proxy…

Power Point Presentation for the Global Landscapes Forum London, 10 June 2015 WHY AN INVESTMENT FUND? 12 million hectares of land are degraded every year by human activities. By rehabilitating this land: we create a land degradation neutral economy, we achieve food security by 2050, we contribute to biodiversity conservation , we mitigate climate change by sequestering up to 20% of…

Equitable access to land and tenure security for IFAD’s target groups are essential for rural development and poverty eradication.Tenure security influences the extent to which farmers are preparedtoinvest in improvements inproduction and land management. It shapes social relations and contributes to social stability –or rather,situations of tenure insecuritycontribute to social instability and…

Land Use Policy is an international and interdisciplinary journal concerned with the social, economic, political, legal, physical and planning aspects of urban and rural land use. It provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and information from the diverse range of disciplines and interest groups which must be combined to formulate effective land use policies. The journal examines issues in…

Global Environmental Change is a peer-reviewed international journal publishing high quality, theoretically and empirically rigorous articles, which advance knowledge about the human and policy dimensions of global environmental change. The journal interprets global environmental change to mean the outcome of processes that are manifest in localities, but with consequences at multiple spatial,…

Environmental Science & Policy promotes communication among government, business and industry, academia, and non-governmental organisations who are instrumental in the solution of environmental problems. It also seeks to advance interdisciplinary research of policy relevance on environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity, environmental pollution and wastes, renewable and non…