How land management approaches meet key criteria for addressing global goals / Lisa Hartmann, Jonas Hansohm, Letizia Vellozo

Land and water management approaches that address environmental and social challenges have been gaining importance in recent years. Several of these approaches are well known, while others have been only recently developed. These approaches have different names, specific objectives and principles and may employ different methods and technologies. At their core, however, all have the potential to address land degradation and desertification, to mitigate drought and to deliver many other environmental, economic and/or social co-benefits. The well-known concepts of land degradation neutrality (LDN) and sustainable land management (SLM) offer benchmarks against which land and water management approaches can be assessed. Understanding how well aligned these approaches are with SLM and LDN can help different communities that solve similar problems to work together to remedy global environmental challenges. To explore this opportunity more systematically, the Parties of the UNCCD requested an assessment of approaches that may contribute to the sustainable management of land and water resources and to the achievement of LDN (UNCCD Decision 19/COP.15/23/Add.1). This brief present the assessment conducted to understand alignment of land and water management approaches with SLM and LDN and its supporting report aim to guide UNCCD parties in planning and evaluating land and water management projects, leveraging policy and donor support and advancing both SLM and LDN.

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