Africa Platform

Income level (areas of concern)
Smallholder farmers and pastoralists have restricted access to capital and may not have the capacity to invest in management practices that mitigate land degradation. This layer displays the areas of concern for the issues related to income level derived from the convergence of global evidence of human-environment interactions that can lead to land degradation.

Data provider

EC-JRC
Suggested citation

Cherlet, M., Hutchinson, C., Reynolds, J., Hill, J., Sommer, S., von Maltitz, G. (Eds.), World Atlas of Desertification, Publication Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2018.
Related tool or portal

https://wad.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
Licence

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Date or time period of observation

2014
Frequency of update

Not Updated
Geographic coverage

Global
Spatial Resolution

1km
Technical background

Income level was selected as one of the 14 global change issues (GCIs) relevant to the global convergence of evidence for land degradation. Based on whether its value at a particular spatial location is above or below a certain threshold, each GCI is classified as being either a concern for land degradation (e.g. declining productivity) or not (e.g. stable productivity). The average income of a country's citizens is computed based on the Gross National Income (the value of a country's annual income – domestic plus net income received from abroad) divided by the size of its population. Areas of concern for income level are characterised by an average income inferior to the broad land cover class median.
Cautions

Concerns can be validated or dismissed only by evaluating them within their local biophysical, social, economic and political contexts. Local context provides an understanding of causes and consequences of degradation, but also offers guidance for efforts to control or reverse it.
Related SDGs and targets

GOAL 15: Life on land,
Related Topics

Economy, Security, Sustainable Growth & Jobs, People, Remittances

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