| Title: |
Sharing the Land: Restoring Degraded Ecosystems and Improving Livelihoods Through Agroforestry |
| Authors: |
Davis, Marion; Palm, Matilda; Mattsson, Eskil; Bessonova, Ekaterina |
| Publication Year: |
2014 |
| Collection: |
Chalmers research (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothemborg / Chalmers Tekniska Högskola) |
| Subject Terms: |
Horticulture; Physical Geography |
| Description: |
The challenge is daunting: how to feed more than 7 billionpeople – nearly 10 billion by 20501 – even as key resourcesbecome scarcer. Roughly 24% of the world’s land area is degrading,including more than a fifth of the cropland and nearly a third of the forests – yet 1.5 billion people directly depend on degraded areas. Some countries are particularly hard-hit:95% of Swaziland’s land is degraded, as is 66% of Angola’s, 64% of Gabon’s, 60% of Thailand’s, and 60% of Zambia’s. In China, 457 million people are affected by land degradation. |
| Document Type: |
other/unknown material |
| File Description: |
text |
| Language: |
unknown |
| Relation: |
https://research.chalmers.se/en/publication/210333 |
| Availability: |
https://research.chalmers.se/en/publication/210333 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.B5646E7E |
| Database: |
BASE |