Title:	Sustainable Land Management
Authors:	Burcroff, Richard
Keywords:	Challenges, Opportunities, and Trade-offs
Issue Date:	2006
Publisher:	The World Bank
Description:	This report focuses on land management issues for the sustainable intensification of food and fiber systems and for the rehabilitation of degraded crop, pasture, and forestlands. While good land management is important at the field and farm level, it is not enough to ensure sustainability. The planning and execution of sound resource management at the watershed (catchment*) level and even beyond (often referred to as the “landscape level”) is increasingly important for retaining ecological integrity and ensuring that food and fiber systems are resilient enough to absorb shocks and stresses and avoid degradation of land and water resources (FRP 2005). New scientific knowledge detailing the extent and importance of ecosystem services and their roles in sustaining humans and our agroecosystems is now becoming available. The social and economic values of these services provide new opportunities for policies to encourage SLM. Recent advances in remote sensing tools will greatly facilitate the timely monitoring of land management effects and resource degradation by both users and policy makers. However, new investments will be necessary to meet the demand from land users to (a) improve access to existing knowledge and information of SLM and the consequences of inappropriate management, (b) appropriately intensify land use, and (c) rehabilitate land that has been degraded for both productive and ecosystem functions.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/47770
ISBN:	0-8213-6598-3
Appears in Collections:	Rural Development Studies

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