land restoration

Insights from Social Contexts

Land Degradation in India: A National Systems Perspective on Achievements and Challenges

  • April 11, 2024

Though there was a higher level of deforestation in India in the past, the degradation of remaining patches of natural forest has declined. According to official data, there is an increase in areas covered by forests in the country.
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Land Restoration in Brazil: A National Systems Perspective on Achievements and Challenges

  • March 5, 2024

Brazil has a law which compels private land owners to conserve/restore a part of their farms. Such farms include large plantations which are owned by private corporations (and these plantations are an important part of the land-use in Brazil).
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Land Restoration and Social Context: Opportunities for Successful Land Restoration

  • October 31, 2023

The topic of land restoration (including indigenous/traditional and scientific knowledge) should be included in different disciplines in tertiary education institutions (e.g., remote sensing, statistics, agriculture) as well as primary and secondary education. Policymakers, practitioners, and users need better training/awareness on restoration practices.
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Opportunities for Restoration as a Business: Money does grow on Trees!

  • September 27, 2023

The voluntary carbon offsetting market is taking off after a slow start and bringing significant resources into the restoration market and is estimated to be tens of billions of dollars per year by 2030, with prices for quality projects of at least at 30 USD/Ton by 2030.
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Enabling Resources for Land Restoration: Financing, Policies, Regulations and Technology

  • September 9, 2023

Ensuring more resources for land restoration requires a set of enabling factors which this paper addresses, namely: financing, policies, regulations and technology.
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Aligning Development Policies for Green Jobs and Land and Ecosystem Restoration

  • August 29, 2023

Recently, the Government of Karnataka along with Azim Premji University, Libtech India, ATREE and the Foundation for Ecological Security has initiated work towards understanding the avenues for aligning MGNREGA with the goal of ecological restoration. This work was done as a pilot project in Chikkabalapur district of Karnataka.
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Envisioning a National System of Land Restoration (Part 2)

  • April 14, 2023

The human development indicators of most Indian states are low. The development of its manufacturing sector is slow (though there has been higher economic growth during the last 3-4 decades) and this has slowed the transition of a land-dependent population towards industries and urban areas. All these work against the efforts towards the restoration of land in rural areas.
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Envisioning a National System of Land Restoration (Part 1)

  • March 24, 2023

It is obvious that different socio-economic and institutional factors impact land restoration in a country. These may include laws and their enforcement, economic incentives of people which in turn are determined by national and international markets and government policies; actions of organisations that are involved in restoration, etc.
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Peatland Restoration in Indonesia Needs a Global Collaborative and Pragmatic Approach

  • March 10, 2023

The restoration of peatlands in Indonesia and elsewhere is important not just for these countries but also globally. The burning of peatlands can add significant amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and can also lead to other problems, such as haze that affects airline traffic.

Insights from Social Contexts

Socioeconomic Conditions that Enable Restoration of Land and Ecosystems

  • December 29, 2022

Discussions on land restoration have so far not focussed adequately on the connection between human development and the restoration of land and ecosystems. There are cases where broad-based development led to an increase in the vegetative cover over those lands which were used for intensive (or degrading) agriculture in the past.

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