Sentences with phrase «unsustainable land use practices»

Working closely with surrounding communities, this project aims at transforming the wide - spread unsustainable land use practices in the area.

Moreover, unsustainable land use practices, coupled with the effects of climate change, lead to land degradation, falling agricultural yields, rise in rural poverty, land abandonment, forced migration and conflict.

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Climate change, allied to unsustainable land - use practices, will increase the number and size of dust storms from China's deserts.

While scientists have long understood the carbon storing potential of tropical peatland forests — they lock up to five times more carbon than tropical forests and account for a third of the world's total carbon reserves — much less is known about the actual amounts of carbon stored in their soils and the impacts of unsustainable land - use practices.