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In recent years, several major drivers have put the world off track to ending world hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. The challenges have grown with the COVID-19 pandemic and related containment measures. This report presents the first global assessment of food insecurity and malnutrition for 2020 and offers some indication of what hunger might look like by 2030 in a scenario…

This paper prepared by UNCCD and FAO highlights that the interactions between human, ecosystems and ecology often govern drought-linked disease. Factoring these interactions and their impacts on vulnerable communities and their environment is important for drought preparedness, resilience, and recovery. It also calls for increased investments and defines important steps for government and…

"Restoring Life to the Land – The Role of Sustainable Land Management in Ecosystem Restoration" illustrates how Sustainable Land Management (SLM) experience feeds directly into ecosystem restoration efforts, as well as ecosystem maintenance.

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…

This Good Practice Guidance on Strategic Objective Three, to mitigate, adapt to, and manage the effects of drought in order to enhance resilience of vulnerable populations and ecosystems, was prepared to support Parties to report on the progress made towards Strategic Objective 3, which has the aim of mitigating, adapting to, and managing the effects of drought in order to enhance resilience…

Central Asia experiences frequent sand and dust storms (SDS), which have been made worse by human activity. The main objective of this study is to provide an economic analysis of the benefits of afforestation of the former Aral Seabed in Uzbekistan.Proper estimation and categorization of economic benefits associated with each scenario of landscape restoration enables the Government of…