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Securing tenure to restore land and safeguard livelihoods

The brief provides an overview of more secure tenure pathways to enhance the adoption and upscaling of regenerative agriculture, sustainable land management and restoration. It highlights the some of the activities of the UNCCD-FAO Joint Initiative that promote the recognition and enforcement of legitimate land rights and their potential to increase the effectiveness of land and ecosystem…

Securing tenure to restore land and safeguard livelihoods
Monitoring of gender parity levels across UNCCD

This analytical study was undertaken to establish a baseline for monitoring gender parity across the Convention in UNCCD subsidiary bodies and institutions: Committee on Science and Technology, Science Policy Interface, Bureau of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC), Bureau of the Conference of the Parties (COP), UNCCD Secretariat staff, and national…

Monitoring of gender parity levels across UNCCD
Green job opportunities: Burkina Faso

The technical briefs "Gender-sensitive income generation and green job creation opportunities in the Central and West African Sahel within the Great Green Wall area" for Senegal and Burkina Faso examine green job and income opportunities in these countries as part of the Great Green Wall initiative, focusing on the challenges and opportunities women face in accessing these green jobs. The need…

Green job opportunities: Burkina Faso
The cascading and compounding impacts of drought

This policy brief highlights drought impacts. All life on Earth is connected through water as part of a complex, interconnected planetary system. Drought stresses and sometimes breaks those life-sustaining connections. Functioning ecosystems underpin the quality of life in both developed and developing countries. The food-water-energy nexus can spread the impacts of drought over…

The cascading and compounding impacts of drought
Nature-based solutions for drought resilience

A new report from TNC shows the potential for nature to help us adapt to a changing climate. This technical brief highlights the critical role of nature in building drought resilience. The world is facing the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, with drastic impacts on communities and ecosystems that are expected to accelerate in the coming decades. Nature-based Solutions (NbS)…

Nature-based solutions for drought resilience
UNCCD Data Dashboard

A site where core topics under our mission and mandate can be explored through the information submitted by country Parties in their national reports during the 2022 reporting process. Access the UNCCD Data Dashboard here.

UNCCD Data Dashboard