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Urban–Rural Linkages and Land: Introducing the Flows-to-Action Framework

Strong, sustainable, and resilient urban-rural linkages are central to efforts to combat land degradation, reduce out-migration, and achieve other sustainable development priorities, such as improving rural livelihoods, ensuring food security and water availability, conserving biodiversity, and mitigating and adapting to climate change.

Urban–Rural Linkages and Land: Introducing the Flows-to-Action Framework
Business for Land: Powering a Land-Positive Economy

Focusing on the operational frameworks, the brief details how the initiative structures its corporate impact across three strategic pillars: aligning business value chains with land-positive practices, piloting innovative financial instruments like the Drought Resilience Investment Facility, and fostering policy advocacy through a Champions Council. Geared toward high-impact industries like…

Business for Land: Powering a Land-Positive Economy
Promoting synergies between Land Degradation Neutrality and climate change adaptation

The report is envisioned as a supplement to the guidelines of the NAP process. It offers a step-by-step approach to integrating the principles and objectives of the Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) framework within climate change adaptation planning. It identifies where and how these broad goals intersect, and it reveals how activities, knowledge, training, monitoring and funding sources can…

Promoting synergies between Land Degradation Neutrality and climate change adaptation
Science-policy brief: Sustainable land use systems – the path forward to collectively achieve Land Degradation Neutrality

This publication presents science-based evidence concerning sustainable land use systems (SLUS) and the potential of the SLUS approach to achieve land degradation neutrality (LDN) targets, reduce inequalities, achieve social justice, improve economic viability and, consequently, help achieve multiple United Nations sustainable…

Science-policy brief: Sustainable land use systems – the path forward to collectively achieve Land Degradation Neutrality