Contents below:
· General information
· Events
· Institutions
~ International organizations & agrements
~ Research
~ Initiatives & NGOs
· Tools
· Historical land use analysis
· Sustainable land use & management
· Timeline of important milestones
· Land degradation neutrality (LDN)
General information
Global Restoration Monitor @ GEA
· English, French, Spanish, and German translations available
Land degradation: An Overview @ NRCS
· A great source for an overview of the issues surrounding land degradation and desertification
Soil Erosion and Degradation @ WWF
Global Desertification Vulnerability Map
· Useful for understanding the global distribution of desertification vulnerability
Global Land Outlook
Desertification & drought @ EC
Events
1977 UN Conference on Desertification
Institutions
~ International agreements & organizations ~
UN Convention to Combat Desertification
FAO
Global Environment Facility (GEF)
· Provides funds and investments for efforts that reverse land degradation
African Initiative for Combatting Desertification
Land degradation & desertification
~ Research ~
Economics of Land Degradation (EDL)
Global Land Analysis and Discovery (GLAD) laboratory @ University of Maryland
Land use & Livelihoods Initiative @ Global Development Policy Center, Boston University
~ Initiatives & NGOs ~
Earthna Center for a Sustainable Future (Earthna)
· Small Grants Programme: supports local and indigenous communities restore degraded land
U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit
Tools
Restoration Policy Accelerator @ WRI
Historical land use analysis
Sustainable Land Development & Management
Land use & Livelihoods Initiative @ Global Development Policy Center, Boston University
• Small Grants Programme: supports local and indigenous communities restore degraded landd
U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit
• How people/communities plan and regulate land use
Timeline of Important Milestones (reverse chronology)
· Recognizes the role sustainable development has in reversing land degradation andcombatting desertification
2012: Future We Want Paragraphs 205-209
2010: UN Decade on Desertification
· 2010–2020 is Decade for Deserts and Fight Against Desertification to promote action that will protect the drylands
2006: International Year of Deserts and Desertification
2006: International Workshop on Climate and Land Degradation
2000: 8th Session of the Commission on Sustainable Development
1992: Agenda 21 Chapter 10 and Chapter 12
· “Managing Fragile Ecosystems: Combating Desertification and Drought”
Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN)
· Multi-sector partnership that aims to mitigate the competiton to control land resources to prevent social
and political instability
Land Degradation Neutrality Target Setting Project @ IUCN
Achieving LDN @ UNFCCC