Land management options for mitigation fall in the following four categories: a) cropland management; b) grazing land management/pasture improvement; c) management of agricultural lands and d) restoration of degraded lands. This description focuses on the restoration of degraded lands. Within this description, a differentiation is made between a) management of organic and peaty soils and b) restoration of other degraded lands.
Country/region/village: Niger/Tondikiwindi/Darey
Community: Darey
Half-moon with tree species Acacia Senegal, built by locals. Photo credit: Rodrigo Ordonez/GLF
Local name of practice: Handou Rabi
A farmer from Loga standing close to one of the shrubs naturally assisted with millet cropping system.
Across vast areas of the world, human activity has degraded once fertile and productive land. Deforestation, overgrazing, continuous farming and poor irrigation practices have affected almost 2 billion hectares worldwide, threatening the health and livelihoods of over one billion people. In this edition of New Agriculturist, a collection of articles explores some of the approaches and policies that can help to successfully rehabilitate degraded land.
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