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Global Land Outlook: Northeast Asia Thematic Report: Partnerships to Achieve Land Degradation Neutrality

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Journal Articles & Books
Novembre, 2019
Chine
République populaire démocratique de Corée
Japon
Mongolie
République de Corée
Fédération de Russie

Deforestation, land degradation, and unsustainable land management threaten our lives and are responsible, both directly and indirectly, for many economic, social and environmental issues. In particular, countries in Northeast Asia face the growing threats of desertification, land degradation and drought (DLDD).

Global Land Outlook: Latin America and the Caribbean Thematic Report: Sustainable Land Management and Climate Change Adaptation

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Journal Articles & Books
Novembre, 2019
Caraïbes
République dominicaine
Amérique centrale
Guatemala
Mexique
Amérique du Sud
Argentine
Brésil
Équateur
Paraguay
Pérou

The extensive arable land and great biodiversity present in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have the potential to ensure sustenance and a good quality of life for its more than 600 million inhabitants. LAC has experienced important changes in land use. When the Europeans arrived in the 15th century, the forest cover of LAC accounted for approximately 75 per cent of the territory.

Road to Restoration. A Guide to Identifying Priorities and Indicators for Monitoring Forest and Landscape Restoration

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Journal Articles & Books
Novembre, 2019
Global

By declaring the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, the UN has recognized that there are only 10 years left to restore the world's degraded land. Countries are striving to fight climate change by 2030 through their Paris Agreement commitments and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Shaping an Enabling Environment for Land Degradation Neutrality Science-Policy Brief

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Policy Papers & Briefs
Novembre, 2019
Global

Shaping an enabling environment for Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) calls for integrated land use planning, inclusive and environmentally sound land access and governance, major reconfigurations of current institutional settings, financial backing, and ongoing dialogue between policy-makers, practitioners, and the scientific community.

Global Land Outlook: East Africa Thematic Report: Responsible Land Governance to Achieve Land Degradation Neutrality

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Journal Articles & Books
Novembre, 2019
Soudan
Afrique orientale
Burundi
Éthiopie
Kenya
Rwanda
Tanzania
Ouganda

Land Degradation Neutrality is a new way of approaching land degradation that acknowledges that land and land-based ecosystems are affected by global environmental change as well as by local land use practices.

Land Degradation Neutrality: Interventions to Foster Gender Equality

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Journal Articles & Books
Novembre, 2019
Global

Women constitute the bulk of people who rely on land in many of the regions most affected by desertification, land degradation and drought. One in three people on earth depend directly on agriculture, while nearly 80% of employed women in least developed countries report agriculture as their primary livelihood.

Global Sustainable Development Report 2019: The Future is Now – Science for Achieving Sustainable Development

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Journal Articles & Books
Novembre, 2019
Global

A call to action: 20 interventions that will matter. The report’s Call to Action identifies 20 points where interventions can create transformative and accelerated progress towards multiple goals and targets in the coming decade.

Reviving land and restoring landscapes: Policy convergence between forest landscape restoration and land degradation neutrality

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Journal Articles & Books
Novembre, 2019
Global

Countries have publicly announced their commitments to restore degraded forests and lands.This report comes at a time when many countries are fully engaged in the challenging task of implementing their LDN targets and Bonn Challenge pledges with a goal to achieve them by 2030.

Land-Drought Nexus: Enhancing the Role of Land-Based Interventions in Drought Mitigation and Risk Management. A report of the Science-Policy Interface

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Journal Articles & Books
Novembre, 2019
Global

This UNCCD-SPI technical report provides well-established scientific evidence for understanding the strong linkages between land use and drought and how management of both is connected through water use. It introduces a new concept of Drought-smart land management (D-SLM) and organizes relevant approaches and practices in fourteen groups across four major classes of land use.

Combining Earth Observations, Cloud Computing, and Expert Knowledge to Inform National Level Degradation Assessments in Support of the 2030 Development Agenda

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Journal Articles & Books
Novembre, 2019
Argentine

Monitoring progress towards the 2030 Development Agenda requires the combination of traditional and new data sources in innovative workflows to maximize the generation of relevant information.

Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Fund. An innovative impact investment fund for sustainable land use, with a linked TA Facility

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Journal Articles & Books
Novembre, 2019
Global

The challenge of land degradation Sustainable land use is closely connected with many sustainable development objectives Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN).  It is estimated that two billion hectares of land is degraded worldwide, and we continue to degrade another 12 million hectares of productive land every year.

Voices from the Land: Restoring Soils and Enriching Lives

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Journal Articles & Books
Novembre, 2019
Global

When the UN Convention to Combat Desertification was created at the Rio Earth Summit over 25 years ago, it became the only international convention dedicated to protecting, managing and restoring our land. The environmental benefits of that work are already well documented, particularly when it comes to the inextricablelinks with climate change and biodiversity.