BANGKOK: When her husband suddenly died, Nakimo set up a small shop in Bhutan's southern Chukha district to provide for her family of seven, then began growing hazelnut trees, which not only boosted her income, but also helped preserve the soil on her land.
Erosion could reduce crop yields by up to half by 2050, and also increases the risk of landslides and floods, according to the FAO. More than 90 per cent of the Earth's agricultural soils are at risk of degradation within the next 30 years. "Hazelnut trees can be planted on mountain slopes where other crops are unable to thrive – this stabilises the slopes and improves watersheds," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.Billions of people live on land that is deteriorating and producing less food, and that could force hundreds of millions of people to migrate over the next three decades, according to a 2018 study backed by the United Nations.
It backs smallholder coffee farmers in Peru, community forestry in Indonesia, as well as Mountain Hazelnuts, and has identified more than 150 potential projects in Africa, Asia and South America. This is the goal in Mongolia, where nearly 70 per cent of grasslands have been damaged due to warmer temperatures and overgrazing by cashmere goats whose highly-prized wool is a top export.
Herders use a mobile phone app created by Toronto-based Convergence.Tech to register their cashmere with a radio-frequency identification tag that is regularly scanned from the goats to the processing facilities. Thanal, a social enterprise, introduced a programme to get urban residents to fund the cultivation of fallow land by smallholder farmers by investing 5,000 rupees per acre to help buy seeds, manure and hire machinery.
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