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Strategies and policies to reach a land-degradation neutral world

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https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/81313
 
Title Strategies and policies to reach a land-degradation neutral world
 
Creator Whitbread, A M
Akhtar-Schuster, M
Erlewein, A
Kizito, F
Nkonya, E
Scherr, S
Shames, S
Tamene, L
Winowiecki, L
 
Subject Drylands Agriculture
African Agriculture
Sub-Saharan Africa
Drylands
 
Description Despite the difficulties in quantifying the extent and
degree of land degradation or restoration, evidence
shows that continued land degradation will be an
impediment to meeting several SDGs. The United
Nations states that it aims for land degradation
neutrality (LDN) which in 2015 became firmly
established as an agreed-upon objective in the realm
of international environmental politics. First, as part
of the SDGs whose Target 15.3 calls to “combat
desertification, restore degraded land and soil,
including land affected by desertification, drought
and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradationneutral
world” by 2030 (UNGA, 2015). The Conference
of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Convention to
Combat Desertification (UNCCD) took the decision
to align the implementation of the Convention with
SDG 15.3 and invited its Parties to set voluntary LDN
targets (UNCCD, 2015). From that point onwards,
the key question is how to implement these global
aspirations at the national level and what is needed to
operationalize the LDN concept and translate it into
concrete strategies to meet LDN at scale...
 
Publisher International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
 
Contributor Vlek, P L G
Khamzina,, A
Tamene, L
 
Date 2017
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10148/1/Strategies%20and%20policies%20to%20reach%20a%20land-degradation%20neutral%20world.pdf
Whitbread, A M and Akhtar-Schuster, M and Erlewein, A and Kizito, F and Nkonya, E and Scherr, S and Shames, S and Tamene, L and Winowiecki, L (2017) Strategies and policies to reach a land-degradation neutral world. In: Land degradation and the Sustainable Development Goals: Threats and potential remedies. CIAT Publication No. 440 . International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Nairobi, Kenya, pp. 39-45.