The degradation of land and water resources resulting primarily from agricultural activities has had enormous impact on human society. In order to alleviate this problem an advanced understanding of the state of our resources and the process of degradation is needed. Conserving Land, Protecting Water includes an overview of existing literature focusing on global patterns of land and water degradation and discussions of new insights drawn from successful case studies on reversing soil and water degradation and their impact on food and environmental security.
Author(s): D. Bossio and K. Geheb
Edition: First
Publisher: CABI
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 235
Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 7
Series Foreword......Page 9
Introduction......Page 11
1 Learning from Bright Spots to Enhance Food Security and to Combat Degradation of Water and Land Resources......Page 19
2 Land Degradation and Water Productivity in Agricultural Landscapes......Page 38
3 Land Degradation, Ecosystem Services and Resilience of Smallholder Farmers in Makanya Catchment, Tanzania......Page 51
4 The Political Ecologies of Bright Spots......Page 69
5 Large-scale Fluxes of Crop Nutrients in Food Cause Environmental Problems at Sources and at Sinks......Page 87
6 Carbon Sequestration, Land Degradation and Water......Page 101
7 Local Innovation in ‘Green Water’ Management......Page 125
8 Sustainability and Resilience of the Urban Agricultural Phenomenon in Africa......Page 138
9 Safeguarding Water Resources by Making the Land Greener: Knowledge Management through WOCAT......Page 147
10 Bright Basins – Do Many Bright Spots Make a Basin Shine?......Page 167
11 The Influence of Plant Cover Structures on Water Fluxes in Agricultural Landscapes......Page 181
12 Investments in Collective Capacity and Social Capital......Page 196
13 Bright Spots: Pathways to Ensuring Food Security and Environmental Integrity......Page 209
14 Ecosystem Benefits of ‘Bright’ Spots......Page 223
B......Page 243
D......Page 244
F......Page 245
I......Page 246
L......Page 247
N......Page 248
Q......Page 249
S......Page 250
V......Page 251
W......Page 252
Z......Page 253
