Various studies have shown that sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is highly vulnerable to the impact
of climate change because of its overreliance on rain-fed agricultural production and that …

Land degradation has become one of the biggest environmental challenges human society
is currently facing, which is why understanding the global pattern of this land crisis is …

In develo** countries, urbanisation and associated demographic changes pose
unprecedented challenges in terms of hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition. A systematic …

Accurate and timely information on croplands is important for environmental, food security,
and policy studies. Spatially explicit cropland datasets are also required to derive …

Securing food for growing populations while minimizing environmental externalities is
becoming a key topic in the current sustainability debate. This is particularly true in the …

Soil and water losses due to agricultural mismanagement are high and non-sustainable in
many orchards. An experiment was set up with rainfall simulation at 78 mm h–1 over 1 hour …

The specific objectives of the assessment are to: 1) Synthesise and highlight the
environmental and socio-economic causes and impacts of SDS, as well as available …

Land Degradation (LD) in socio-environmental systems negatively impacts sustainable
development paths. This study proposes a framework to LD evaluation based on indicators …

This study investigates the socio-ecological system dominated by pasture land in
Asteroussia Mountains (Crete, Greece) between 1950 and 2010 with the aim to identify …

Earth observation (EO) techniques have significantly evolved over time, covering a wide
range of applications in different domains. The scope of this study is to review the research …