An important decision was to include in the new regime emissions from deforestation and land degradation.
Depleting natural resources, land degradation, natural disasters and the impact of continued climate change also often hit the headlines.
Much of China's countryside suffers from severe land degradation, the result of centuries of deforestation and poor land management.
Limited agricultural productivity, continued land degradation and water scarcity have made food self-sufficiency goals unachievable at the national or regional level.
Another court decision Thursday was to cancel the leases of 49 Karnataka mines facing the most serious charges of illegal mining and land degradation.
Meanwhile, the arable land that we do currently have is becoming more damaged, with soil erosion now causing 40 percent of land degradation worldwide, the FAO says.
With almost 1 billion undernourished people in the world, land degradation, and climate change, fundamentals appear to be in place to support food prices for the long run.
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Canada's withdrawal comes ahead of a major convention in Bonn, Germany, "to carry out the first ever comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of desertification, land degradation and drought", the UN Environment Programme said.
Due to the consequences of the environmental crisis in Aral Sea region such as poor soil conditions, intensive desertification and land degradation, the farmers and dehkhans often face a plenty of problems.
Without ownership, herders have no incentive to protect land from degradation and to invest in land improvements.
The theory of the tragedy of the commons is well-known: it is in the interests of any individual to add to his stock of animals on common land, even if that leads to further degradation.
Impacts from changes in land use, water diversions, and infrastructure development continue to drive the degradation and loss of wetlands.
Soil degradation could be worsened by increased erosion caused by higher rainfall, while elsewhere more land could become desert.
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