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

Major challenges of existing land resource management

The CAP prevents the establishment of concrete soil conservation strategies. Only a big change in the regulations and their application and control can invert the present trends towards environmental degradation (see next section).