Table 1.
Distribution of global rural population on degrading agricultural land, 2000–2010.
Table 2.
Distribution of global rural population on improving agricultural land, 2000–2010.
Fig 1.
Change in population per km2 on degrading and improving agricultural land, 2000–2010.
Degrading agricultural land (DAL) consists of agricultural land with a negative change in Net Primary Productivity (NPP) from 1981–2000. Climate-adjusted NPP is measured as the change in grams of carbon sequestered per square meter over the 1981–2000 time period after subtracting respiration losses. Improving agricultural land (IAL) consists of agricultural land with a non-negative change in Net Primary Productivity (NPP) from 1981–2000. NPP is measured as the change in grams of carbon sequestered per square meter over the 1981–2000 time period after subtracting respiration losses. Full details of the spatially referenced datasets used and the methods used to derive this figure are provided in the Material and Methods and the S1 File Supporting Information.
Table 3.
Descriptive statistics of key poverty analysis variables.
Table 4.
Effects of the distribution of rural population on degrading and improving agricultural land on the poverty-reducing impacts of growth in income per capita.