Study site description: Rendina, Italy

Table of Contents

1. Responsible IP partner
2. General information
3. Bio-physical description
4. Land use management and degradation processes
5. Socio-economic description
   1. Population density and structure
   2. Level of education
   3. Level and sources of income
   4. Impacts of land degradation on the livelihood of people
   5. Major challenges of existing land resource management
   6. Major drivers of main land degradation processes
6. Institutional and political setting
7. Relevant end-users / stakeholder groups (at all levels)
8. Past and on-going projects
9. References
10. Annex: Soil characteristics of the Rendina Basin

Population density and structure

The old age index (population with age >65 / total population = R, %) is 16.2% for male population and 20.3% for females (with a net increasing trend in the last 30 years). The population density (people / km²) is 60 (for the whole of Italy: 191);

The population growth rate (% per year) is 0.2% and locally in many small municipalities even slightly negative. 2% of the resident population are citizens from outside EU (mainly Albania and Morocco) or newly accessed EU countries (Romania).