Recognising that drought resilience is imperative to achieving LDN, and that due to drought and desertification, arable land is being lost and that Africa is the most impacted continent. As part of the international community, African countries endorsed LDN in October 2015, and committed to strive to halt desertification and restore degraded land by 2030. In this regard, we the African countries agreed to tackle drought in the framework of LDN and climate change implementation processes. The African Member States and Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Ministers, Heads of Delegation and Experts, attending the High Level Meeting of the first African Drought Conference (ADC);
met in Windhoek, Namibia from the 15 - 19 August 2016;