Translation of "Degraded land" in German

IKI also supports comprehensive action plans for near-natural restoration of degraded land and forests.

These evaluations demonstrated contributions to reducing deforestation and restoring degraded areas of land.

Restoration of degraded land ought to be used as a stimulus for local economic development and creation of jobs.

Sustainable land management practices are being applied by the rural population on approximately 390,000 hectares of formerly degraded land.

Typical projects include the afforestation of conservation areas, residual areas, marginal agricultural land and degraded land.

It is planned conversion of degraded land along the Oder in the new functional urban fabric.

Land use models will be elaborated in order to rehabilitate degraded irrigated land and to restore its productivity.

Particular attention should be paid in this respect to the use of degraded land for the production of biomass.

There is an urgent need for relevant provisions that will allow degraded land to be put back into use and will also limit soil degradation and ensure that the soil is exploited in a sustainable manner.

I should like to point out to the House that compliance with the provisions of the directive will make it possible for degraded land to be reclassified, thus preventing the use of green field sites for industrial and commercial purposes.

Initiative 20×20, for example, aims to reforest 20 million hectares (50 million acres) of degraded land in Latin America by 2020, and is a looking at agroforestry as one key approach.

In Humbo, in southwest Ethiopia, a wonderful project to plant trees on degraded land and work with local communities on sustainable forest management has led to big increases in living standards.

But, at the same time, more than 16 million hectares of pastures and degraded land – an area half the size of Germany – have been abandoned in the Amazon alone, owing to poor agricultural practices and land use.

Ecologists and agronomists show us how to grow more and better crops on less land while ending deforestation and restoring previously degraded land.

To take one example, in Niger, education and improved farming techniques helped double real farm incomes for more than one million people, while restoring huge tracts of severely degraded land.

The aim of the 1994 Convention to Combat Desertification is to prevent and reduce land degradation, rehabilitate partly degraded land and reclaim desertified land.

The aim of the 1994 United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification is to prevent and reduce land degradation, rehabilitate partly degraded land and reclaim partly desertified land.

Biofuels should be promoted in a manner that encourages greater agricultural productivity and the use of degraded land.

The sustainability scheme should promote the use of restored degraded land because the promotion of biofuels and bioliquids will contribute to the growth in demand for agricultural commodities.

The information referred to in the first subparagraph shall include in particular information on compliance with the sustainability criteria set out in Article 17(2) to (5), appropriate and relevant information on measures taken for soil, water and air protection, the restoration of degraded land, the avoidance of excessive water consumption in areas where water is scarce and appropriate and relevant information concerning measures taken in order to take into account the issues referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 17(7).

When those agreements are concluded, due consideration shall be given to measures taken for the conservation of areas that provide, in critical situations, basic ecosystem services (such as watershed protection and erosion control), for soil, water and air protection, indirect land-use changes, the restoration of degraded land, the avoidance of excessive water consumption in areas where water is scarce and to the issues referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 17(7).