Optimizes the uses of crop and livestock resources through interaction and creation of synergies.
(Source: WOCAT glossary https://www.wocat.net/glossary)

A process to solve pest and disease problems while minimizing risks to people and the environment. Any practice that attempts to capitalize on natural processes that reduce pest abundance.
(Source: WOCAT glossary https://www.wocat.net/glossary)

Aims at managing soil by combining different methods of soil-fertility amendment together with soil and water conservation. ISFM is based on three principles: maximizing the use of organic sources of fertilizer (e.g. manure and compost application, nitrogen-fixing green manure and cover crops); minimizing the loss of nutrients; and judiciously using inorganic fertilizer according to needs and economic availability.
(Source: WOCAT glossary https://www.wocat.net/glossary)

In finance, investment is putting money into something with the expectation of gaining revenue, which upon thorough analysis, has a high degree of security of principle, as well as security of return, within an expected period of time.
In economics, investment is the amount purchased per unit time of goods which are not consumed but are to be used for future production.
In the framework of the PRAIS system, investment refers to the use of financial, institutional, human and technical resources for projects, programmes and other relevant activities related to UNCCD implementation.
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Aims to achieve higher water use efficiency through more efficient water collection and abstraction, water storage, distribution, and water application.
(Source: WOCAT glossary https://www.wocat.net/glossary)

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)