Land degradation and soil conservation in India
- Causes: deforestation, overgrazing, mining and quarrying, over-irrigation and waterlogging, industrial effluents
- Ravines and gully erosion of the Chambal and Yamuna badlands; sheet erosion on the Deccan
- Saline and alkaline lands of Punjab, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh from canal irrigation
- Matching soil-conservation methods to Indian regional settings