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Climate Change and Land Degradation: Bridging Knowledge and Stakeholders

Human activities are the principal drivers of the processes of land degradation, desertification and climate change. Though highly complex and difficult to predict, interactions between climate change and land degradation are likely to affect a range of different ecosystem functions and the services they deliver, with consequent impacts on food production, livelihoods and human well-being.

Climate Change and Land Degradation: Bridging Knowledge and Stakeholders
2015 - Evaluation of National Action Programmes (March 2015)

Monitoring and evaluation refers to evidence-based measurement of the achievement of planned results. It enables a timely recognition and correction of problems in delivering a given task, and the identification of successful practices that can be strengthened and replicated.  Monitoring and evaluation increases the likelihood of a continuous delivery of tangible results. 

2015 - Evaluation of National Action Programmes (March 2015)
Sustainable financing for forest and landscape restoration

Public policy makers from developed and developing countries, at all levels (national, regional, local), have the opportunity to take leadership as FLR financing champions. Even without controlling private capital, they can support resource mobilization in a number of ways This publication shares the experiences of some initiatives from around the world which public policy makers can learn…

Sustainable financing for forest and landscape restoration
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)