Linking Land Quality, Agricultural Productivity, and Food Security

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A Framework for Assessing Effects of the Food System (2015, background): “Today, soil degradation in North America affects only 25 percent of cropland, compared to roughly two-thirds in Africa and more than 50 percent in Latin America (Wiebe, 2003).”
Resources, Policies, and Agricultural Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (2013, background): “In an extensive empirical analysis, Wiebe (2003) found that with secure land tenure, farmers are more likely to adopt practices that maintain or enhance soil quality.”
The dynamics of soil degradation and incentives for optimal management in the Central Highlands of Ethiopia (2007, background): “Therefore, attempts to redress policy distortions to bring about the private rate o f soil depletion in line with the optimal social rate o f soil depletion need improved understanding o f the biophysical and economic processes involved in land degradation (Lnd quality and agricultural production) a”