Environment › Conservation initiatives
Land degradation, desertification and drylands
Degraded land and drylands: the desertification convention and India's restoration pledges, soil health and erosion, watershed development, rainfed farming, and sand and dust storms. Prelims has asked why the Convention to Combat Desertification matters.
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Also filed elsewhere
- Open natural ecosystems · on Forests, grasslands and mountain ecosystems
India's open natural ecosystems, its grasslands, savannas, scrub, ravines and deserts, are still recorded in many places as wastelands, and lose out in land use decisions accordingly.