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Land Degradation Neutrality Knowledge Management and Learning Initiative: Learning from the GEF Portfolio of Projects
The purpose of this learning report is to generate knowledge and share experience with the implementation of land degradation neutrality (LDN) to create a better understanding of practices that work best for mainstreaming LDN into national sustainable development agendas, learning from ongoing applications of the LDN framework in the portfolio of Global Environment Facility projects.
Promoting sustainable land management through evidence-based decision support
This publication is a product of the GEF-funded Food and Agriculture Organization project ‘Decision Support for Mainstreaming and Scaling Out Sustainable Land Management (DS-SLM)’ which has developed a decision support framework (DSF). The DSF integrates experience from work with land degradation and sustainable land management (SLM) into an overall strategy for mainstreaming and scaling out SLM at different spatial and temporal scales.
The Great Green Wall Initiative: Supporting Resilient Livelihoods and Landscapes in the Sahel
Over a decade ago, the Global Environment Facility, in close partnership with the World Bank, invested in what has become a landmark project for Africa and the world - the Great Green Wall Initiative (GGWI) in the Sahara and Sahel.
Combating Land Degradation
Land is a vital resource to humankind, like air and water. Land degradation - the progressive deterioration or loss of the productive capacity of soils for present and future - is linked to key aspects of human security and well-being: food, jobs, health, and livelihoods.
Desertification - the extreme form of land degradation in drylands - already affects 3.5 billion people, especially rural communities, smallholder farmers, and the very poor.
Local Action on Sustainable Land Management
This GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP) publication presents an updated overview of the SGP community-based approach and portfolio in the area of sustainable land management, as part of UNDP's overall related portfolio. Special attention is given to gender and youth, with a spotlight on the innovative partnership with SOS Sahel International, focusing on the Sahel region.
Land gets a needed four-year financial boost from the Global Environment Facility
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) welcomes the pledge of $5.25 billion announced for the eighth replenishment of the Global Environment Facility (GEF-8).
'Nature needs to be an integral part of all decision making'
Albania’s Deputy Minister of Tourism and Environment Ornela Çuçi serves as her government’s official liaison to the Global Environment Facility and also represents a constituency of 12 countries at the GEF Council. In an interview, she reflected on the ways Albania is raising awareness about environmental protection as a vital part of economic growth, and shared life lessons from her career in public service.
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