The European Commission, in the context of its Environment and Sustainable Development research programme, is funding activities related to land degradation and desertification in Europe. This publication covers selected outcomes of the project MEDACTION (EVK2-CT-2000-00085); in particular, the ...
This document reported first results on the assessment and evaluation of land‐productivity dynamics and showed initial examples on the added value of integrating contextual information. Such information that is needed to derive final judgments related to the land degradation situation in contrib...
Desertification is a form of land degradation in drylands. It is a growing threat in the EU. The long period of high temperatures and low rainfall in the summer of 2018 reminded us of the pressing importance of this problem. Climate change scenarios indicate an increasing vulnerability to desert...
This Technical Report was developed in the framework of Component 3 of the second phase of the Programme EUROCLIMA: “Sustainable Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change in Latin America: Strengthening the capacities of key stakeholders to adapt agriculture to climate change and mitigate it...
This study explains how threats to soils and soil services are linked to agricultural soil management, how threats can be mitigated, and which barriers complicate this. It highlights trade-offs and synergies that exist between different interests affected by soil management, such as climate chan...
Land degradation is a complex concept encompassing a variety of processes, natural or human induced, that affect the functioning of the land and the providing of ecosystem services. We propose a methodology to evaluate the impacts of future scenarios of socio-economic pathways and representative...
