2019 Land for Life Award Winners

The 2019 Land for Life Award was dedicated to the theme “Decades of Impact”, with UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) celebrating its 25th anniversary. The award recognized dedicated actions for 25 years or longer, efforts that contributed to land degradation neutrality, and remarkable positive impacts on land, people, communities, and society as a whole.

The 2019 Land for Life Award winners are:

•  MERET (Managing Environmental Resources to Enable Transition) Project Ministry of Agriculture of Ethiopia

• Mathieu Ouédraogo, President of Réseau MARP, Burkina Faso 

The 2019 Land for Life China Award

Mr. Yun Dan, Head of the Department of Finance of Tibet Autonomous Region