increases biodiversity, the prevention of land degradation and food security through the increases in crop yields. The framework … indirectly the cross-cutting ecological concerns foci of major global conventions: climate change, biodiversity, the combat of … biodiversity and preventing land degradation. These options demonstrate that the judicious management of organic matter is central …

, using global level remotely sensed vegetation index data, we identify the hotspots of land degradation in the world across …