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The extensive arable land and great biodiversity present in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) have the potential to ensure sustenance and a good quality of life for its more than 600 million inhabitants. LAC has experienced important changes in land use. When the Europeans arrived in the 15th century, the forest cover of LAC accounted for approximately 75 per cent of the territory. At…

Widespread land degradation threatens food production, water availability, biodiversity and energy security. When land is degraded and usable land becomes scarce, women are uniquely and differentially affected due to their substantial role in agriculture and food production, their reliance on forests, their greater vulnerability to poverty, and their typically weaker legal protections and…

In 2015, governments identified their priorities and objectives to achieve LDN, and then backed them with strong political statements. Reflecting that demand for urgent action, within a year, the Global Mechanism and the secretariat of the UNCCD and its international partners had established the LDN Target Setting Programme, which takes countries through a structured process to help leverage,…

Guiding selection of SLM practices to increase or maintain SOC stocks and deliver other benefits, using information ranging from local knowledge to global datasets.

Guiding the establishment of SOC monitoring and investment in measurement schemes that most effectively contribute to national-scale LDN assessment. Using direct measurement or tools/models for SOC assessment (or a combination of both) contributes to the efforts of national-scale LDN assessment.

Providing guidance for obtaining SOC data for different levels of certainty. They guide you through which steps to take in the cases when high, medium or low certainty is required.