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ASIAASIA Area: 144,100 km² Geography: The Republic of Tajikistan is located in the southwest of Central Asia. About 93 % of the land is covered with mountains, the Trans-Alay Range…
ASIAASIA Area: 447,400 km² Geography: Uzbekistan is a landlocked country in the middle of Central Asia. The east has middle and high mountainous landscapes, which decline to the…
ECONOMICS OF LAND DEGRADATION INITIATIVE ELD ELD Logo und Farben Logo und Farben ̷̷ ELD strategy 2023 –2030: Transformative action for land 1 Imprint Authors Johannes Kruse, Nina Bisom,…
German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) The BMZ is a founding member of the ELD Initiative and current funder. www.bmz.de/en European Commission The European…
Area: 20,111,457 km² Latin America has the world’s largest reserves of arable land. The area still covered with forest (47%) is rapidly declining due to the vast expansion…
LATIN AMERICALATIN AMERICA Area: 1.964,375 km² Geography: Mexico lies between Guatemala and the United states, bordering the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico,…
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