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Today, roughly 65% of Africa’s agricultural soil is degraded, lacking sufficient nutrients and microbial life to support plant health.
Two-thirds of Africa's land is
degraded
and more than half of its population lives without safe drinking water.
To take one example, in Niger, education and improved farming techniques helped double real farm incomes for more than one million people, while restoring huge tracts of severely
degraded
land.
The newly elected president, Rene Preval, is a highly talented and experienced agronomist, and thus has the perfect background to revive Haiti’s
degraded
rural economy.
With food prices now soaring, most of Asia’s “working poor,” who are already struggling on
degraded
lands, in sweatshops, on streets and at homes, risk further destitution.
Given that little suitable land remains unused, and that much of what is being farmed is increasingly
degraded
and eroded, investment in sustainable intensification (systems for increasing crop yields, while using fewer resources and minimizing environmental damage) is crucial.
The optimism of many analysts concerning our ability to feed these additional billions is quite disturbing, given that millions annually die of malnutrition already, and many more are so malnourished as to have
degraded
lives.
China’s reengineering of natural river flows through damming – one-fifth of the country’s rivers now have less water flowing through them each year than is diverted to reservoirs – has already
degraded
riparian ecosystems and caused 350 large lakes to disappear.
But, while this approach would certainly help to catch counterfeits, it would miss the substandard or
degraded
products made by legitimate firms, which are tested only by the consumer – and often at great cost in terms of health risks.
Others say they feel
degraded
and ashamed.
Rather than creating artificial CO2-binding “farms,” governments should focus on protecting already-existing natural ecosystems and allowing
degraded
ones to recover.
US President Barack Obama says that the Islamic State must be
degraded
and ultimately defeated.
Although the FARC’s capabilities have been seriously
degraded
over the last six years, and its geographical dispersion has shifted away from the main population centers, a series of high-profile attacks against business and civilian targets in the main cities would suffice to shatter the impression of security in the country.
The remarkable growth spurt of the last three decades has
degraded
the natural environment considerably, produced vast excess capacity in basic industries like cement and steel, and left the banking system saddled with bad loans.
Governments will need to take action to conserve existing ecosystems – and restore and expand
degraded
ecosystems – in people-friendly ways.
To achieve the Paris agreement’s goal of limiting warming to “well below 2ºC” relative to the pre-industrial level, the world needs to shift decisively from coal, oil, and gas to renewable energy by around 2050, and from deforestation to reforestation and restoration of
degraded
lands.
Ecologists and agronomists show us how to grow more and better crops on less land while ending deforestation and restoring previously
degraded
land.
With Kenyan government backing, Rhino Ark has been able to turn its attention to other forested but
degraded
areas – such as Mount Eburu in the Mau Forests Complex, overlooking Lake Naivasha, and Mount Kenya, a World Heritage Site that has been heavily affected by human-wildlife conflicts.
In the short_term, then, quasi_private tracts of the forest stand to benefit from commercialization, while communally exploited tracts will be
degraded
further.
Rather, they are passed on to taxpayers, the poor, and, in the form of a
degraded
planet, future generations.
Two-thirds of the continent is desert or drylands, and three-quarters of its agricultural drylands are significantly
degraded.
Bureaucrats in the ministries of international trade and of finance, once revered barons of Japan's economic miracle, are increasingly criticized, even
degraded.
But there are limits to substitutability: the costs of substitution (including human ingenuity) often increase in previously unknown ways as key resources are
degraded.
Furthermore, a
degraded
macroeconomic and financial environment increases the likelihood of bank failures, with immediate consequences for public finances and economic confidence.
Deforestation and unsustainable land use have
degraded
soils, altered rainfall patterns, and increased the incidence of extreme weather events, especially in Africa.
Continent-wide, 65% of land has been degraded, and 3% of agricultural GDP is lost annually, owing to soil and nutrient loss on farmland.
Tree planting on
degraded
land, for example, can increase agricultural productivity by anchoring farmland, increasing soil fertility, and providing shade for crops and livestock.
More severely
degraded
land is tougher to restore, so every day restoration is delayed is a lost opportunity for the environment, the economy, and peace.
Re-wetting peatlands and the restoration of
degraded
peat forests should be the next step, followed by the creation of early warning systems to detect and control forest fires.
Likewise, some of the measures needed to capture and store emissions would entail the restoration of some two billion hectares of forests, wetlands, and grasslands that have been
degraded
and lost.
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