Sentences with phrase «used on degraded land»

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That means using timber and crop residues or trying to grow high - yielding grasses or trees on truly marginal and degraded land, and that is the recommendation of these many reviews.

According to the paper, microalgae, which can be grown in salt water or produced on otherwise degraded land, can be used as livestock feed, freeing up land currently used for pasture and feed crops.

Coverage of areas specially conserved for biodiversity and ecosystem functions should be increased (at least to the Aichi Target 11 of 17 % terrestrial and 10 % marine area), with systems of conservation being democratized and based on integration of rights and responsibilities; in all kinds of land / water uses, activities that are ecologically damaging need to be modified or replaced; high priority should also be given to the regeneration and restoration of degraded ecosystems and the revival of populations of threatened species; equitable access (including through territorial and resource tenure) must be accorded to natural resources, with special focus on populations with high and direct dependence on such resources for their survival and livelihoods.

Scarano focused on direct threats such as the Belo Monte dam project, as well as successful experiments at restoration, including efforts to revive degraded land using novel techniques, which in some places include planting non-native tree species as a way to create zones that provide suitable habitat for native seedlings to take hold.

Jatropha curcas, for instance, is a plant that grows well on marginal lands and can also be used to restore degraded lands, suggesting that Jatropha production, if carefully managed, may be expanded without directly competing with natural forests or high - value agriculture lands used for food production.

Other efforts will focus on adopting sustainable agricultural practices and restoring degraded lands abutting conservation areas to improve land use management and livelihoods.

On state - and community - owned lands, carbon finance would be used to fund sustainable development initiatives, like planting crops on degraded lands and reforestatioOn state - and community - owned lands, carbon finance would be used to fund sustainable development initiatives, like planting crops on degraded lands and reforestatioon degraded lands and reforestation.

Depending on how it is done, using degraded lands for the expansion of bioenergy plantations could have either positive or negative effects on soil fertility, erosion, ecosystems, biodiversity, water flow and food availability.

grow on degraded land: Mehmood, M.A., et al. «Biomass Production for Bioenergy Using Marginal Lands.»