Does Land Degradation Increase Poverty in Developing Countries?

摘要: Land degradation is a global problem that particularly impacts the poor rural inhabitants of low and middle-income countries. We improve upon existing literature by estimating extent populations in 2000 2010 globally on degrading improving agricultural land, taking into account role market access, analyzing resulting poverty. Using variety spatially referenced datasets, we estimate 1.33 billion people worldwide were located land (DAL), which 1.26 developing Almost all world’s 200 million remote DAL countries, about 6% their population. There also 1.54 (IAL), with 1.34 find lower share DAL, or higher IAL, lowers significantly how much overall economic growth reduces poverty from to 2012 across 83 As population IAL countries grew 13% 15% respectively 2010, these changing spatial distributions could impact future