LDN aims to balance anticipated land degradation with efforts to restore degraded land, resulting in no net loss of healthy and productive land areas.
India aims to achieve land degradation neutrality by the year
Asked in UPPCS Prelims 2019 · Topic: Environment and Sustainable Development (Deforestation, Desertification, and Land Degradation)
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