Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Overview -- Definition of SLM -- Challenges to SLM -- Opportunities for SLM -- Intensification of Land Use and Integrated Resource Management -- Exploiting the Production and Environmental Functions of Land -- Mechanisms and Incentives for Improved Land Management at the Watershed Level -- Trade-Offs and SLM Strategic Options -- Policy and Sector Work -- Research and Technology Development -- Knowledge Sharing and Extension -- Providing Incentives, Expenditure Priorities, and Modes of Financing -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- Introduction -- Notes -- CHAPTER 2 Incidence and Effects of Land Degradation -- Introduction -- Changing Land Use: Its Causes and Implications -- Growing Demand for Food and Fiber -- Economic Forces and Land Management Incentives -- Agricultural Intensification in Rain-Fed and Irrigated Systems -- Global Environmental Change -- Notes -- CHAPTER 3 Challenges to Sustainable Land Management -- Introduction -- Appropriate Land Management Systems -- Improved Water Management -- Adapting to Climate Change -- Knowledge Dissemination and Land Policy Constraints -- Notes -- CHAPTER 4 SLM Interventions: An Agri-technical Perspective -- Introduction -- Protecting the Land Resource: Agricultural Intensification and Integrated Farming Systems -- Soil Fertility Management -- Market Opportunities Linked to Erosion Control Practices: A Key to Adoption? -- Protecting and Managing Watersheds -- Exploiting the Production and Environmental Service Functions of Land -- Notes -- CHAPTER 5 The Bank's Evolving SLM Portfolio -- Introduction -- Past and Current Investments for SLM and Related Interventions -- The Pattern of Bank Group Investments in SLM, NRM, Biocarbon, and Watershed Management Programs -- IBRD and IDA Projects with SLM as a Component (1999-2004).

IBRD and IDA Projects Focusing on Watershed Management -- World Bank Carbon Investment Funds (2002-2005) -- Lessons Learned -- Notes -- CHAPTER 6 SLM: Strategic Options -- Introduction -- Policy and Sector Work -- Research and Technology Development -- Knowledge Sharing and Extension -- Providing Incentives, Expenditure Priorities, and Modes of Financing -- Recommended Approach and the Role of the World Bank Group -- The Need for Phasing -- Information Needs -- Defining SLM Priorities -- Role of the Bank and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) -- Notes -- Appendix: Land Management and a Useful Plant Diversity Index ("V" Index) -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.