A web-based or other system explicitly designed for the management and sharing of knowledge (such as data, information, tools, skills, expertise, best practices and success stories) among members within an organization or a network (for example, the PRAIS platform).
Land productivity is the biological productive capacity of the land, the source of all the food, fibre and fuel that sustains humans.
(Source: Sims et al. (2017). Good Practice Guidance SDG Indicator 15.3.1: Proportion of Land that is degraded over total land area. United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Bonn, Germany.http://www2.unccd.int/sites/default/files/relevant-links/2017-10/Good%2…)
The term “land productivity dynamics” (LPD) reflects the fact that the primary productivity of a stable land system is not a steady state, but often highly variable between different years and vegetation growth cycles due to natural variation and/or human intervention.
(Source: UNCCD, 2017. The Global Land Outlook, first edition. Bonn, Germany https://global-land-outlook.squarespace.com/the-outlook/#the-bokk)
The use of financial resources to increase the return on investments. Leverage is a factor by which a lever multiplies a force.
Mainstreaming is the act of bringing an issue into the mainstream, or majority, of society.
(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)
This is a globally accepted strategy for promoting gender equality. Mainstreaming is not an end in itself but a strategy, an approach, a means to achieve the goal of gender equality. Mainstreaming involves ensuring that gender perspectives and attention to the goal of gender equality are central to all activities - policy development, research, advocacy/ dialogue, legislation, resource allocation, and planning, implementation and monitoring of programmes and projects.
(Source: http://www.un.org/womenwatch/osagi/gendermainstreaming.htm)
Market-based mechanisms seek to address the market failure of 'environmental externalities' either by incorporating the external cost of production or consumption activities through taxes or charges on processes or products, or by creating property rights and facilitating the establishment of a proxy market for the use of environmental services. (Source: http://stats.oecd.org/glossary)
Maximum NDVI in an annual time series. In phenological terms, it is maximum level of photosynthetic activity in the canopy.
(Source: http://www.britannica.com/)
Refers to no-tillage or low soil disturbance only in small strips and/ or shallow depth and direct seeding.
(Source: WOCAT glossary https://www.wocat.net/glossary)
Information describing the content or utility of a data set. For example, the dates on which data were procured are metadata.
(Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Glossary)