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Slow-onset Processes and Resulting Loss and Damage – An introduction

In addition to amplifying extreme weather events, climate change also causes or intensifies slow-onset processes such as sea-level rise, desertification, biodiversity loss or permafrost thaw. Both types of climate change impacts cause loss and damage, impede the enjoyment of human rights and can be drivers for human mobility. In contrast to extreme weather events, dealing with loss and damage…

Slow-onset Processes and Resulting Loss and Damage – An introduction
The State of Food and Agriculture 2021. Making agri-food systems more resilient to shocks and stresses

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the vulnerability of agri-food systems to shocks and stresses and led to increased global food insecurity and malnutrition. Action is needed to make agri-food systems more resilient, efficient, sustainable and inclusive. The State of Food and Agriculture 2021 presents country-level indicators of the resilience of agri-food systems. The indicators measure…

The State of Food and Agriculture 2021. Making agri-food systems more resilient to shocks and stresses
Creating a Nature Positive Future: The Contribution of Protected Areas and Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures

Protected and conserved areas are the foundation for conserving biodiversity. ## To date, %16.65 of land and %7.74 of marine areas are reported as protected and conserved areas worldwide, a remarkable achievement, given that 42 percent of these areas – more than 21 million square kilometers – has been added just in the last decade. ## Indigenous people are…

Creating a Nature Positive Future: The Contribution of Protected Areas and Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures
Regenerative Agriculture: An opportunity for businesses and society to restore degraded land in Africa

Recent research has shown that land degradation has had, and will have, severe impacts on crop production and supply chains in Africa. Regenerative agriculture has been found to be an important part of the solution. A new report commissioned by IUCN and the UNFCCC High Level Champions and steered by a working group of African partners ahead of Climate COP26 in Glasgow provides…

Regenerative Agriculture: An opportunity for businesses and society to restore degraded land in Africa
Foodscapes: Toward Food System Transition. New ways of envisioning, managing and implementing the transitions necessary for the full-scale transformation of our global food system

What does it take to produce food? Think of it in layers, starting from the ground up. The bottom layer is the physical geography—perhaps a broad, flat plain, gently sloping toward a shallow river basin. Over the plains accumulates humus-rich soil, dense with carbon, calcium, and magnesium. Layer on a humid climate with heavy rains from June through September, and you have the conditions that…

Foodscapes: Toward Food System Transition. New ways of envisioning, managing and implementing the transitions necessary for the full-scale transformation of our global food system
Children's Art Competiton. For Desertification and Drought Day 2021, children share the vision of the land they want to live on in the future.

This World Soil Day, UNCCD invites you to enjoy the Kids4Land e-book. It is a collection of entries from our recent art competition, where we have invited children from all over the world to share with us their vision of the land they would like to live on in the future. Together with their artwork, the kids also shared some profound messages. Beyond reminding us that we don't inherit our land…

Children's Art Competiton. For Desertification and Drought Day 2021, children share the vision of the land they want to live on in the future.