Written by on Sept. 17, 2020 in Biodiversity, Land Degradation.
Last update on Sept. 17, 2020.
Photo: Farmer removing side stems from naturally regenerated Guiera senegalensis to enhance its growth, a key FMNR practice (by P. Savadogo/ ICRAF).
This blog is reposted with permission from the ICRAF website
Farmer-managed natural regeneration as a land restoration strategy. Under what conditions does it work?
The upcoming UN decade on Ecosystem Restoration aims to ...
Written by on Jan. 15, 2018 in Biodiversity, Land Degradation, Deforestation, R, Soil Mapping.
Last update on Jan. 15, 2018.
Photo of an agricultural landscape in Eastern Uganda, by Madelon Lohbeck
Restoration has never been more important, with almost a third of the world’s land surface degraded. But what exactly is restoration? And how do we know if it works?
More than 1.5 billion of the world’s poorest people are directly affected ...
Written by on March 30, 2017 in Biodiversity, Land Degradation.
Last update on March 30, 2017.
Working with nature: tropical
forest regrowth and its potential for mitigating climate change
The Bonn challenge aims to restore 350 million hectares of
degraded land by 2030 of which currently almost 100 million hectares has been
committed through various initiatives. Restoration is a global priority; not
only to restore the productivity of degraded and unproductive ...
Written by on July 24, 2015 in Biodiversity, Land Degradation, Soil Mapping.
Last update on July 24, 2015.
Read the ICRAF blog here:
http://blog.worldagroforestry.org/index.php/2015/07/08/restoring-land-for-kenyan-pastoralists/
Written by on March 25, 2015 in Biodiversity, Land Degradation, Deforestation, Soil Mapping.
Last update on March 27, 2015.
Written by on March 6, 2015 in Biodiversity, Land Degradation, Deforestation, Soil Mapping.
Last update on March 6, 2015.
The field team from the ICRAF GeoScience Lab led by John Maina and Clement Okia (ICRAF Uganda) has completed the first of two Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF) sites on Mt Elgon in Uganda, as part of the project "Filling knowledge gaps on the restoration of degraded smallholder landscape mosaics". See slides below to get ...
Written by on Aug. 5, 2014 in Biodiversity, Land Degradation, Deforestation, Soil Mapping.
Last update on Aug. 5, 2014.
We are in the process of developing an interactive online mapping and analytical platform, and have just released a test version for the Sentinel Landscapes initiative. Click here to run the application in a new window in your browser. You can also view the sites on the Landscapes Portal here.
Written by , on May 21, 2014 in Land Degradation.
Last update on May 21, 2014.
Conventional soil erosion models are generally based on the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE), or a revised (RUSLE) or modified (Williams and Berndt (1977)) version of the USLE. Betrie et al (2011) used the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), which uses MUSLE to compute soil erosion, to model sediment transport in ...
Written by on Feb. 10, 2014 in Biodiversity, Land Degradation, Deforestation.
Last update on Feb. 24, 2014.
The Virunga landscape has one of the greatest diversities of habitats globally within about 790 thousand hectares. Thousands of hippopotamuses and elephants live in the park's rivers and its mountains are a critical area for the survival of the mountain and lowland gorillas. However, these habitats have undergone dramatic changes in land cover and ...
Written by on Jan. 16, 2014 in Land Degradation, New maps, Soil Mapping.
Last update on March 19, 2014.
The Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF) was developed at the World Agroforestry Centre for landscape level assessments and studies of carbon dynamics, vegetation changes, soil functional properties and soil hydrological properties. The LDSF has been implemented in more than 20 countries in Africa to date, including the CIAT-led [Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS)]("http://worldagroforestry ...
