Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought Resilience

by Chizoba Chinweze (editor)

Land Degradation Restoration The Oasis Ecosystem Restoration Project (pp. 120-153)

by Lorenzo Vallerini 

Cuvillier Verlag, Göttingen, Germany

© 2023

English text

328 pp., Hard Copy € 84.90 E-book € 59.90

ISBN-13 (Hard Copy) 9783736977839 ISBN-13 (eBook) 9783736967830

Desertification, land degradation and drought occur in all regions of the world, affecting the landscape, impacting on agricultural production and leading to hunger and poverty, it drives unemployment, forced migration and conflict, while increasing the risk of extreme weather related to climate change. Globally, 24% of the land is degrading and about 1.5 billion people directly depend on these degrading areas. Nearly 20% of the degrading land is cropland, and 20-25%, rangeland. The livelihoods of more than 1 billion people in some 100 countries are threatened by this phenomenon.

It is also expected that continuing land degradation will drive 700 million people out of their homes. Therefore, land degradation issue became a matter which requires an immediate attention thus the need for this book to contribute to the wealth of knowledge for our future survival.

This book which is based on the contributor’s expertise gives case studies on how to deal with the challenges of desertification, land degradation and drought at the various regions affected by it, through traditional knowledge as well as scientific methods that can support resilience at the local scales.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Introduction Chizoba Chinweze
• Drought, Water Stress And Food Security Issues: A Review From Global Perspective Chizoba Chinweze
• Drought Governance Chizoba Chinweze
• After the Inferno: Agriculture following the Wildfires of 2020 in Western United States in the midst of Global Warming and a Global Pandemic Carole A. LeBlanc, Ph.D.
• Sky Water: History and Prospect. James Rodger Fleming
• The Great Green Wall and Desertification Chizoba Chinweze, Buka Hassan and Emeka Mba
• Desertification, Poverty And The Farmers’ Dilemma In The Sudano-Sahelian Region: A Case Study Of Zamfara State, Nigeria Felix Ezeh and Gwen Abiola-Oloke
• Impacts of Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought (DLDD) and How to Enhance Local and Regional Resilience to its Challenges. Dr Md.Khalilur Rahman
• The Desertification in Humid Region of China YANG Lihui
• Trends and Targets of Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN), the Case of Kuwait  Raafat Misak
• Soil as a Basic Resource – Oasis Ecosystem Project, Lake Turkana, Kenya Lorenzo Vallerini
• Resilience Measures Against the Degradation and/or Desertification of Coffee Agroecosystems of Misantla, Veracruz, Mexico. Matilde Borroto Pérez, Othon Hernández Candanedo and Claudio Belli Celis
• Land-Use Impacts on Plant Diversity And Carbon Storage In A Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest (Caatinga) At Northeast Brazil Jarcilene Silva de Almeida
• Agroforestry Basics: What, Why, & How Benoît Ellis Clément
• Prospects of Sustainable Urban Farming for Food Security and Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa Emmanuel O. Benjamin, Domna Tzemi and Daniela Subtil Fialho
• Resilience Measures in Sugarcane Agriculture in The Papaloapan Water Basin, Edo. Veracruz Mexico. Matilde Borroto Pérez , Marisol Prieto Avendaño , Cuahutemoc Jacobo Ramirez , José Jacobo Femat , and Daniel Carbajal
• Modelling the Territory through the “accessibility” Concept for Sustainable Land Management, Case of the Maningory Watershed, Madagascar Jimmy Andrianina Rakotovaoa,, Samuel Razanakab, Bruno Salomon Ramamonjisoaa, Julie Gwendolin Zaehringerc, Harifidy Rakoto Ratsimbaa
• Conclusion Chizoba Chinweze