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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.
In Ecuador, learning about Land Degradation Neutrality in practice
Countries worldwide have pledged through the UN Convention to Combat Desertification to halt, and then reverse, land degradation that is affecting the health of soils and ecosystems globally.
Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) is an innovative approach to achieve this: it aims to prevent and reduce strains on land health while also reversing past damage. The ultimate goal is to achieve a balance where there is no net loss of healthy, productive land on a national and eventually international scale.
But how can leaders turn this concept from reality in practice?
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.
UN desertification conference opens in New Delhi with an ambitious call to action
Government ministers from 196 countries, city and local leaders, non-governmental organizations, scientists and industry experts, are gathering in New Delhi, India from 2-13 September for the fourteenth session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD COP14).
The main focus of the conference is finding ways to reverse land degradation while supporting a sustainable future for communities and ecosystems.
IPCC Special Report reflects urgency of better land management to combat climate change
A new special report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has concluded that better land management is necessary to tackle climate change, raising urgency about the need for more collective action to ensure the world’s forests, farms, and other landscapes are protected and developed in a sustainable way.
World Day to Combat Desertification 2019: Let's grow the future together
The World Day to Combat Desertification (WDCD), observed every year on June 17th, promotes public awareness of international efforts to combat land degradation. WDCD 2019 theme, “Let’s Grow the Future Together,” calls for the achievement of Land Degradation Neutrality through the involvement and cooperation of all levels of the global community.
India will host UNCCD COP14
India will host the next global Conference on desertification, land degradation and drought from 7 to 18 October 2019 at the Vigyan Bhavan conference centre in New Delhi. Participants from 197 Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) will have access, for the first time, to a wealth of vital new scientific data. They will have access to Earth Observation data on the trends in land degradation dating from 2000, gathered from 120 of the 169 countries affected by desertification.