As leaders in agriculture, forest, and climate change research converge in Warsaw for the Global Landscapes Forum this week, a study focused on a watershed in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, provides a potent example of the extent to which land use management matters to preserving drinking water sources in a changing climate.
According to one climate change scenario predicted by the study, poor land management could cause soil erosion to increase by 155 percent, damaging reservoirs that are ths source of water for people and crops, and effectively erasing the potential positive effects on soil of the...
