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Land & resource management

Land degradation (pdf 252kb)

This paper defines and describes the implications of land degradation.

It addresses the following topics:
- extent and trends of land degradation
- achievements and cost
- price and trade policy reforms
- capital market failures
- property rights, land tenure, market failures and externalities
- technology development and productivity growth
- direct land use interventions
- summing up benefits and costs

 

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