The goal of the Great Green Wall initiative is to strengthen the resilience of natural systems in the Sahel and Sahara regions through sound ecosystem management, sustainable development of land resources, as well as protection of rural heritage and improvement of living conditions of local…

The Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) Initiative is a global strategy for sustainable land management that explores economic benefits of the land and the ecosystems it supports. The initiative highlights the reward of investing in land management and provides a universal approach for analysis of…

Key lesson The Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) target setting pilot project made the case for the multiple cross-sectoral benefits of LDN as an accelerator of the Sustainable Development Goals . The importance of LDN target setting as a lens to ensure policy coherence among existing initiatives,…

Sustainable Land Management (SLM) is an integral component of any stakeholder’s attempt to achieve LDN and sustainable development goals while ensuring ecologically responsible land management practices.