Resources

The guide provides practical methods to integrate the VGGT into UNCCD and Land Degradation Neutrality efforts, supporting policymakers in addressing land tenure issues through adaptable approaches, legal frameworks, and national strategies to combat desertification and land degradation.

An options paper for raising awareness on responsible land governance for combatting desertification, land degradation, and drought. Tenure security is a crucial enabler for land degradation neutrality. Without rights to property, communities lack the security to invest in the ecosystems on which they depend, which can hinder uptake of sustainable management practices even…

This methodological note provides guidance for estimating the proportion of populations exposed to land degradation disaggregated by sex, as a first step towards addressing the gender data gap on land degradation issues within the UNCCD reporting framework.  

Climate- and human-induced land degradation endangers the future survival of our planet. A new focus on achieving Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) seeks to spark and grow transformative efforts to avoid, reduce and reverse land degradation through gender- and socially-equitable means. As of July 2019, 122 countries of the 169 countries directly affected by desertification, land degradation or…