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Poverty in the Philippines : Causes, Constraints, and Opportunities

By Asian Development Bank

Book information

Publisher
Asian Development Bank Institute
Year
2009
ISBN
9789292547417, 9789715618571
LCC
HC460.P6 -- .P685 2009eb
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5645120 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
134\0
Time added
2023-08-11 00:58:14
Poverty -- Philippines. ; Philippines -- Economic

Description

The People's Republic of China (PRC) suffers from some large-scale land degradation problems, posing a significant threat to the lives of local residents and to the future economic welfare of the nation. The dryland areas of the western PRC, which cover approximately 40% of the country's land area, contain some of the most severely degraded land in the world. With only about 7% of the world's farmland and 6% of the world's annual water runoff, the PRC must feed 22% of the world's population.With the assistance of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and ADB, the PRC government established the PRC-GEF Partnership on Land Degradation in Dryland Ecosystems to address land degradation issues, reduce poverty, restore dryland ecosystems, and conserve biodiversity through an effective integrated ecosystem management (IEM) approach.

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