Subject(s): Land -- Sustainable development. -- Agricultural development -- projects -- Incidence and effects of land degradation: Change in land use, global environmental change -- Challenges to sustainable land management :Appropriate land management system, improved water management, climate change, knowledge dissemination and land policy constraints -- SLM interventions -Agricultural perspective : Protecting land resources - agricultural intensification and integrated farming systems, soil fertility management, market opportunities linked to Erosion control practices, protecting and managing watersheds, exploiting production and environmental service functions of land -- Bank's evolving SLM portfolio : patterns of bank groups investments in SLM,NRM, BioCarbon and watershed management programs -- SLM- strategic options : Policy and sector work, research and technology development, knowledge sharing and extension, providing incentives, expenditure priorities and modes of financing, recommended approach and role of world bank group