More than 40 African nations met in Nigeria and agreed to lift all cross-border taxes and tariffs on fertilizers needed to replenish the continent's severely degraded soils.

Application of bentonite clay technology made a big contribution to rejuvenating degraded soils in Northeast Thailand, which both improved yields and farmer incomes.

In Papua New Guinea, it is reported to be a very vigorous colonizer of degraded soils following shifting cultivation.

Studies have reported positive effects from biochar on crop production in degraded and nutrient-poor soils.

Soil regeneration is the reformation of degraded soil through biological, chemical, and or physical processes.

It is fast-growing when young, reaching 5 m tall in three years even on degraded soils.

Offsetting global CO2 emissions by restoration of degraded soils and intensification of world agriculture and forestry.

The purpose of using organic materials is to repair degraded soil.

It makes no provision for Community funding or for basic, essential projects for the prevention and replacement of degraded soils.

Most are pastoralists and farmers practicing subsistence agriculture on dry land with poor and increasingly degraded soils.