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Production of guidelines for best sustainable land management (SLM) technologies and approaches in Sub- Saharan Africa (SSA) has been part of TerrAfrica’s programme during 2009-2010. These guidelines and case studies are intended to help create a framework for investment related to SLM in SSA. The particular aim of these guidelines is to identify, analyse, discuss and disseminate promising SLM practices - including both technologies and approaches - in the light of the latest trends and new opportunities.

The WOCAT-LADA-DESIRE mapping tool is based on the original WOCAT mapping questionnaire (WOCAT, 2007). It has been expanded to pay more attention to issues such as biological and water degradation, it also places more emphasis on direct and socio-economic causes of these phenomena, including their impacts on ecosystem services. It evaluates what type of land degradation is actually happening where and why and what is being done about it in terms of sustainable land management (SLM) in the form of a questionnaire.

This document is the first part of a two part manual on local level assessment of land degradation and sustainable land management:
? Part 1 ? Planning and Methodological Approach, Analysis and Reporting
? Part 2 ? Field Methodology and Tools

This document is the second part of a two part manual on local level assessment of land degradation and sustainable land management:

? Part 1 ? Planning and Methodological Approach, Analysis and Reporting

? Part 2 ? Field Methodology and Tools

The two parts should be used together as Part 1 provides the background information for the conduct of the methods and tools that are provided in Part 2.

With the continual rise of global commodity prices and increasing population pressures worldwide, the future of agriculture is looking increasingly unstable. As a result of this escalating demand and intensification of unsustainable agricultural techniques, natural resources are facing an increasing threat of depletion.

One out of every three people on earth is in some way affected by land degradation. Latest

estimates indicate that nearly 2 billion ha of land worldwide – an area twice the size of China

– are already seriously degraded, some irreversibly. This includes large areas of cropland,

grassland, woodland and forest areas whose degradation reduces productivity, disrupts vital

ecosystem functions, negatively affects biodiversity and water resources, and increases

vulnerability to climate change.

The Occasional Paper Series published by the FAO Investment Centre covers technical briefs, research treatises and particularly useful case studies.

Areas of public forest and pasture maybe leased to public or private entities through public biddings. The designated bodies for examining and approving the awards, rules of procedure, and the type of activities allowed on these areas are provided for in the Instruction.

The Vision of the present cross-sectoral Forestry Strategy 2020 (FS2020) establishes that by 2020, the Government of the Lao PDR envisages a sizeable, vigorous and robust forestry sector continuing in its role as one of the leading sectors advancing national socio-economic development. A sector in which scientifically-managed natural production forests generate timber and non-timber products at sustainable levels with village participation, under supervision and technical support from well-staffed, well-trained local and national government units.

El Programa Estratégico Forestal para México 2025 es un documento multisectorial, de cobertura nacional, que establece las bases y estrategias para formular planes y programas operacionales de corto, mediano y largo plazos, orientados al uso sustentable de los recursos forestales.

These Regulations amend the Landfill Tax Regulations 1996 in regulation 31(3) so as to provide for information to be given to the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs about fines that fail the LOI (lost on ignition) test provided for in the Landfill Tax (Qualifying Fines) Order 2015, which sets out what fines are qualifying fines and conditions that must be met for treating fines as qualifying fines.

Amends: Landfill Tax Regulations 1996 (S.I. No. 1527 of 1996). (1996-06-12)