Enclosing and protecting an area of degraded land from human use and animal interference to permit natural rehabilitation, enhanced by additional vegetative and structural conservation measures.
(Source: WOCAT glossary https://www.wocat.net/glossary)

For the purpose of UNCCD reporting, this land cover class is composed of any type of areas with a predominant artificial surface cover as a result of human activities. Natural vegetation can also be present, but it isn't dominant respect the artificial surface. Any urban or associated area is included in this class, as for example urban parks or sport facilities. The class also includes industrial areas, waste dump deposit and extraction sites:
- construction sites (cities, green urban areas, towns and transportation as road and rail networks and associated land),
- port and airport areas,

Those goods made in a traditional or non-mechanised way. It is generally small-scale and often considered part of the informal sector, and some cases as in the case of mining, illegal sector.
(Source: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/artisanal)

Aquaculture -- also known as fish or shellfish farming -- refers to the breeding, rearing, and harvesting of plants and animals in all types of water environments including ponds, rivers, lakes, and the ocean.
(Source: http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/aquaculture/what_is_aquaculture.html)

The baseline (or reference) is the state against which change is measured.

In the context of Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN), the initial (t0) estimated value of each of the indicators used to monitor progress in the achievement of LDN for each land type. The baseline values of these indicators are measured at the time of implementation of the LDN conceptual framework.

(Source: IPCC, 2014: Annex II: Glossary [Mach, K.J., S. Planton and C. von Stechow (eds.)]. In: Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the

Individuals, groups, or organizations, whether targeted or not, that benefit, directly or indirectly, from the development intervention.
(Source: OECD Development Assistance Committee (2002). Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management. http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/29/21/2754804.pdf)

Country(ies), subregion or region benefiting from a given project, programme or initiative.
(Source: adapted from OECD Development Assistance Committee (2002). Glossary of Key Terms in Evaluation and Results Based Management. http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/29/21/2754804.pdf)

Measures, methods or activities that perform best or achieve the highest impact according to predefined criteria assessed through a validation process.
See also ‘Practice’ and ‘Good practice’.

Organic material both above-ground and below-ground, and both living and dead, e.g., trees, crops, grasses, tree litter, roots etc. Biomass includes above – and below – ground biomass.
(Source: http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/j9345e/j9345e12.htm)

Bonds and notes are debt instruments that usually give the holder the unconditional right to fixed money income or contractually determined variable money income. With the exception of perpetual bonds, bonds and notes also provide the holder with an unconditional right to a fixed sum as repayment of principal on a specified date or dates.
(Source: http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/index.htm)

For the purpose of UNCCD reporting, capacity building and capacity development are equivalent terms, which both refer to the process by which countries obtain, strengthen and maintain their capability to meet the obligations laid down by the Convention and the requirements of the Strategy. The GEF has identified five main areas of capacity building/capacity development:

• enhance the capacities of stakeholders to engage throughout the consultative process;
• generate, access, and use information and knowledge;
• strengthen capacities for developing policy and legislative frameworks;
• stre

A popular (but misleading) term for a trading system through which countries may buy or sell units of greenhouse-gas emissions in an effort to meet their national limits on emissions, either under the Kyoto Protocol or under other agreements, such as that among member states of the European Union. The term comes from the fact that carbon dioxide is the predominant greenhouse gas, and other gases are measured in units called "carbon-dioxide equivalents."
(Source: http://unfccc.int/essential_background/glossary/items/3666.php#C)

The multitude of associations around which society voluntarily organizes itself and which represent a wide range of interests and ties. These can include community-based organisations, indigenous peoples’ organisations and non-government organisations.
(Source: https://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=7231)

Is responsible for classifying the entire image by comparing the spectral characteristics of each pixel to the spectral characteristics of reference land cover classes. Supervised classification or semi-automatic classification involves identification of homogenous areas in an image (training areas), according to their spectral signatures and subsequently applying one of a variety of classification algorithms (e.g., Minimum distance, Maximum likelihood, Spectral Angle Mapper).

Climate change refers to a change in the state of the climate that can be identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its properties and that persists for an extended period, typically decades or longer. Climate change may be due to natural internal processes or external forcings such as modulations of the solar cycles, volcanic eruptions and persistent anthropogenic changes in the composition of the atmosphere or in land use.
(Source: IPCC, 2014: Annex II: Glossary. In: Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I

Refers to local, national or transnational financing, which may be drawn from public, private and alternative sources of financing.
(Source: http://unfccc.int/focus/climate_finance/items/7001.php)

An activity in which goods or services are used up for the satisfaction of individual or collective human needs or wants.
(Source: OECD Glossary of Statistic Terms. http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/detail.asp?ID=429)

Expenses incurred in consumption, as opposed to expenses incurred in the production of goods and services.
(Source: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/consumption-expenditure.ht…)

At the field level: programmes and projects relating to desertification, land degradation and drought (DLDD). At the institutional level: meetings of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC), meetings of the Committee on Science and Technology (CST), meetings of the Conference of the Parties (COP), meetings at regional level, and processes relating to the integrated financing strategy (IFS).

Counter erosion or anti-erosion measures are all actions to reduce the vulnerability of landscapes to soil-erosion processes. The key to erosion control is preventing the detachment of soil particles and reducing the volume of runoff. These measures include a broad range of technical and biological soil-treating actions and the rehabilitation of degraded areas as well as changes in land-use planning and agricultural management. These measures often involve the creation of a physical barrier. Due to different environmental conditions anti-erosion measures vary accordingly to the specific

For the purpose of UNCCD reporting, this land cover class includes any geographic areas with a predominant cultivated surface cover of either herbaceous crops or woody crops. The class is composed of a main layer of cultivated herbaceous plants (graminoids or forbs), including herbaceous crops used for hay, and/or of a main layer of permanent cultivated tree or shrub crops and includes all types of orchards and plantations (fruit trees, coffee and tea plantation, oil palms, rubber plantation, Christmas trees etc.). All the non-perennial crops that do not last for more than two growing seasons

A cross slope measure is the sustainable management, conservation and restoration of ecosystem to reduce disaster risk and safeguard the direct and indirect benefits, people obtain from the ecosystems.
(Source: WOCAT glossary https://www.wocat.net/glossary)

Characteristics of information, usually numerical, that are collected through observation. (Source: OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms. http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/index.htm)

An organized collection of data. (Source: OECD Glossary of Statistical Terms. http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/index.htm)

Name of institution, individual or group of individuals owning the original data set.