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Peace Forest Initiative: Restoring peace and trust through nature

The Peace Forest Initiative (PFI) represents a beacon of hope in these unprecedented times of growing instability. By merging ecological restoration, education and dialogue with peacebuilding and conflict-sensitive approaches, the PFI seeks to create sustainable communities and foster cooperative coexistence. In bringing together diverse stakeholders, including governments, international…

Peace Forest Initiative: Restoring peace and trust through nature
The Global Land Outlook: West Africa Thematic Report: Land Degradation Neutrality: Benefits for Human Security

Located in the arid and semi-arid areas of West Africa, the Sahel has undergone profound changes over the past 50 years. Known for the prevalence of land degradation processes, the Sahel is suffering from the combined negative effects of population growth, human activities and climate variability, resulting in recurrent droughts and the continued decline of natural resources and land…

The Global Land Outlook: West Africa Thematic Report: Land Degradation Neutrality: Benefits for Human Security
A Rising Africa in a Fragile Environment: The Initiative on Sustainability, Stability and Security

The 3S Initiative – for Sustainability, Stability and Security in Africa – is an inter-governmental initiative helping to transform the narrative and unlock Africa’s potential. Countries participating in the 3S Initiative believe that social inclusion can be achieved hand-in-hand with environmental stewardship. If we harness Africa’s great strengths – its land, its…

A Rising Africa in a Fragile Environment: The Initiative on Sustainability, Stability and Security
Global Land Outlook 1st edition

The evidence presented in this first edition of the Global Land Outlook demonstrates that informed and responsible decision-making, along with simple changes in our everyday lives, can if widely adopted help to reverse the current worrying trends in the state of our land resources.

Global Land Outlook 1st edition
2017 Land for Life Award: Land and Human Security

Land for Life Award recognizes the excellence and innovation of individuals, groups, institutions and businesses whose work and initiatives have made a significant contribution in achieving Land Degradation Neutrality. With the theme “Land and Human Security”, the 2017 Land for Life Award has been awarded to nominees whose work has demonstrated tangible evidence of transforming the lives of…

2017 Land for Life Award: Land and Human Security
The UNCCD: Securing Life on Land (2016-2017)

Achieving LDN requires a paradigm shift in land stewardship: from ‘degrade-abandon-migrate’ to ‘protect-sustain-restore’. This is the rationale that underpins the LDN Target Setting Programme that became operational in spring 2016. Through this programme, the UNCCD’s operational arm — the Global Mechanism — is supporting a rapidly growing number of countries that have committed to setting…

The UNCCD: Securing Life on Land (2016-2017)
Desertification: The invisible frontline (second edition)

Desertification is a silent, invisible crisis that is destabilizing communities on a global scale. As the effects of climate change undermine livelihoods, inter-ethnic clashes are breaking out within and across states and fragile states are turning to militarization to control the situation. The effects of desertification are increasingly felt globally as victims turn into refugees, internally…

Desertification: The invisible frontline (second edition)