The new UNCCD reporting process has been launched. To accommodate the highly technical nature of the new reporting process and enhance national capacity to generate, analyze, interpret and use Earth observation data, UNCCD has developed a series of online tutorials on how to use the available…

LDN target setting is a political process that utilizes the best available knowledge to set ambitious, yet realistic targets. It means defining broad, yet clear, time-bound and measurable objectives on what a country wants to achieve in terms of halting and reversing land degradation and restoring…

Key lesson All countries were able to establish land degradation neutrality (LDN) baselines, based on a small set of indicators, using national data and/or the global default data provided by the project. Land cover and land cover change, land productivity and soil organic carbon were the three…

Desertification is threatening the livelihoods of 1 billion people in over 100 countries, and each year 12 million hectares of arable land are lost to drought. The extent and severity of land degradation worldwide, combined with the negative effects of climate change, population growth and an ever…