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Securing tenure to restore land and safeguard livelihoods

The brief provides an overview of more secure tenure pathways to enhance the adoption and upscaling of regenerative agriculture, sustainable land management and restoration. It highlights the some of the activities of the UNCCD-FAO Joint Initiative that promote the recognition and enforcement of legitimate land rights and their potential to increase the effectiveness of land and ecosystem…

Securing tenure to restore land and safeguard livelihoods
Science-Policy Brief: integrated land use planning and integrated landscape management to implementing Land Degradation Neutrality

Country Parties gathered at the UNCCD COP14 requested that the UNCCD Science-Policy Interface (SPI) provide “science- based evidence on the potential contribution of integrated land use planning (ILUP) and integrated landscape management (ILM) to positive transformative change, achieving land degradation neutrality (LDN) and addressing desertification, land degradation, and drought issues” …

Science-Policy Brief: integrated land use planning and integrated landscape management to implementing Land Degradation Neutrality
The contribution of integrated land use planning and integrated landscape management to implementing Land Degradation Neutrality: Entry points and support tools

The report provides an analytical overview of common tools and approaches that are used, or can be used, to support integrated land use planning (ILUP) and integrated landscape management (ILM) and identifies ways in which these tools and approaches can aid in achieving LDN targets.

The contribution of integrated land use planning and integrated landscape management to implementing Land Degradation Neutrality: Entry points and support tools
Good practice guidance. SDG indicator 15.3.1, Proportion of land that is degraded over total land area. Version 2.0.

It is a revised, upgraded and improved version of Good Practice Guidance issued in 2017. The new version is more advanced in the analytical methods for calculating SDG Indicator 15.3.1, and reflects current best practice, data and knowledge. The purpose of the Guidance is to inform the work of Parties, particularly on monitoring and understanding the status of land cover, land productivity and…

Good practice guidance. SDG indicator 15.3.1, Proportion of land that is degraded over total land area. Version 2.0.
Land Degradation Neutrality for sustainable agriculture & food security

This brochure provides a brief overview of the UNCCD’s LDN target setting programme and an analysis of response actions identified by 86 countries, highlighting the potential for actionable synergies with the Food Systems Summit. Leveraging LDN Commitments to Boost Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security. The greatest prospects for reversing land degradation, and reducing greenhouse gas…

Land Degradation Neutrality for sustainable agriculture & food security