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The second edition of the Global Land Outlook (GLO2), Land Restoration for Recovery and Resilience, sets out the rationale, enabling factors, and diverse pathways by which countries and communities can reduce and reverse land degradation by designing and implementing their bespoke land restoration agenda. Land restoration for recovery and resilience is about creating livelihood and development…

Produced jointly by the secretariats of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), with contributions from multiple stakeholders, this technical guide addresses the integration of the Voluntary Guidelines on the Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries, and Forests in the Context of National…

Land degradation is one of the most challenging environmental problems that the world is currently facing. Like climate change and biodiversity loss, the international community’s ability to address global land degradation and desertification is often hindered by the conundrum of having to channel a massive amount of funds into countries whose economies are already heavily indebted and…

The aim of the Compendium is to provide information and guidance on how to assess and address the risks posed by sand and dust storms and plan actions to combat sand and dust storms. The Compendium brings together information and guidance from a wide range of sources. It includes approaches and methodology frameworks on data collection, assessment, monitoring and early warning,…

The devastating impacts of drought reach much further than the dry regions of our planet. Droughts are becoming more frequent and severe across all continents – an omen of a world where freshwater and fertile soils are increasingly scarce. In extreme cases, drought triggers famine, forced migration and even conflicts. Mortality related to droughts represents around 60 percent of…

Global challenges occurring at all latitudes are adding pressure on land and water systems and efforts towards the achievement of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development are seriously at risk. The growing unpredictability of climate and the rising water scarcity and land degradation, associated to the increasing frequency and intensity of natural extremes like drought, demand adequate…