News Headline

Lessons from China on large-scale landscape restoration

Source
UN Environment

Publication Date
2019-01-08

In the 1980s, the hilly Qianyanzhou region in Jiangxi Province, southern China, faced severe soil erosion due to deforestation and unsustainable farming practices. Fertile red soil was being washed away causing crop yields to tumble.

Content
https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/lessons-china-large-scale-landscape-restoration