The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment of 2005 estimates that 10% of the drylands suffer from one or more forms of land degradation. Poverty is one of the causes as well as a consequence of ...

Water erosion is the most widespread form of soil degradation globally ... perform processes involving water movement and storage land degradation - the loss of key land functions (e.g., water ...

Land degradation currently affects 1.9 billion hectares globally or about 65 per cent of global soil resources. With 85 per cent, soil erosion is the main contributor. Approximately 1.5 billion people ...

Around 40% of all habitable land is used to produce food. This has come at the expense of nature, causing 80% of deforestation and 70% of biodiversity loss on land. Soil degradation has reduced the ...

halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss. Experts use nuclear techniques involving certain types of atoms called isotopes, such as nitrogen-15 and carbon-13, to assess soil quality ...