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Land resources are the resources of climate, water, soils, forests, pastures and wildlife, on which agriculture, forestry and other forms of rural land use depend. They are destroyed by land degradation and conserved by sustainable land management.

This site reports on selected developments in land resources, ranging from scientific aspects to conservation, evaluation, management, policy, and role in development planning. Land resources canoot be treated in isolation; they interact with agricultural development, economics, hunger, poverty, and population.

News items:

• Climatic change: are you being brainwashed?
• Land degradation: startling new results
• Give women what they want
• Thin on the Ground: Land Resource Survey in British Overseas Territories
• Land degradation in Africa: a 30-year view of change
• Living with climatic change
• Poverty, hunger and population policy: linking Cairo with Johannesburg
• Is there really spare land?
• SCUAF: a model for estimating soil changes under agriculture, forestry, and agroforestry
• World agriculture: FAO reviews the next 30 years
• Cultivated and harvested areas static since 1995
• Agroforestry research: then and now
• Johannesburg 2002: World Summit on Sustainable Development
• Famine in Africa - again
• Measuring land degradation: will LADA succeed?
• GM crops for developing countries

 

For details of these items, go to News.

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"The area still available for food production has been greatly overestimated, and most of the remaining land is already under necessary uses. There are currently 800 million undernourished people, with recurrent famines. To prevent this situation from deteriorating further will require a greatly increased commitment by governments. But unless accompanied by measures to reduce population growth, even such increased efforts may not be enough." Anthony Young