Practice of acquiring and using data from satellites and aerial photography to infer or measure land cover/use. Remote sensing may be used in combination with ground surveys to check the accuracy of interpretation.
(Source: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Good Practice Guidance (GPG) for Land use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF). http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/gpglulucf/gpglulucf_files/Gloss…)

As per the annex of decision 7/COP.13 reporting on progress towards the strategic objectives is required by all Parties considering themselves affected by desertification, land degradation and drought, provided that (i) Parties have sufficient official national data/information to report or validate national estimates derived from global data sources; and (ii) reporting is provided primarily from official national data.
Since information on the three land-based indicators (trends in land cover, trends in land productivity or functioning of the land, and trends in carbon stocks above and below

Country Party to the UNCCD and/or any other organization accredited to the UNCCD which is submitting an official report on the implementation of the Convention and/or The Strategy.

Resource mobilization refers to the mobilization of a mix of resources which include financial, human, technical and knowledge resources

Results are the output, outcome, or impact (intended or unintended, positive and negative) of an intervention.
(Source: OECD-DAC Joint Venture on Managing for Development Results (2008). Sourcebook on Emerging Good Practice in Managing for Development Results, 3rd edition).

The three Rio Conventions — on Biodiversity, Climate Change and Desertification —derive directly from the 1992 Earth Summit. Each instrument represents a way of contributing to the sustainable development goals of Agenda 21. The three conventions are intrinsically linked, operating in the same ecosystems and addressing interdependent issues.
(Source: https://www.cbd.int/rio/)

Indicators developed by the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) in response to a request from the secretariats of the three Rio Conventions to identify aid activities targeting the objectives of the three Conventions.
(Source: OECD Development Assistance Committee (2002). Reporting Directives for the Creditor Reporting System, Addendum. DCD/DAC(2002)21/ADD. http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/44/46/35646074.pdf and http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/16/53/1948102.pdf)

Risk guarantees cover private debt against a government’s (or government entity’s) failure to meet specific obligations to a private or a public project.
(Source: http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTGUARANTEES/Resources/IDA_PRG.pdf)

The successive cultivation of different crops in a specified order on the same fields. Helps to reduce soil erosion and increases soil fertility and crop yield. (Source: WOCAT glossary https://www.wocat.net/glossary)

Rotational Grazing, also called prescribed or managed grazing, is a management-intensive system of raising livestock on subdivided pastures called paddocks. Livestock are regularly rotated to fresh paddocks at the right time to prevent overgrazing and optimize grass growth.
(Source: http://www.mda.state.mn.us/protecting/conservation/practices/grazing.as…)

An improved drinking water source which is located on premises, available when needed, and free of fecal and priority chemical contamination.
See “Improved drinking water sources”
(Source: http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/monitoring/coverage/monitori…)

An image of the Earth’s surface made by means of artificial satellites.

This projection maintains equal area despite conformal distortion. Alternative formats reduce the distortion along outer meridians by interrupting the continuity of the projection over the oceans and by centering the continents around their own central meridians, or vice versa. It is a pseudo cylindrical projection where all parallels and the central meridian are straight. The meridians are curves based on sine functions with the amplitudes increasing with the distance from the central meridian.
(Source: ArcGIS. http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/guide-books/map-projections/si…

The amount of carbon stored in soil.
(Source: Sims et al. (2017). Good Practice Guidance SDG Indicator 13.3.1: 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 mass of soil organic carbon per unit area for a reference depth.
(Source: Sims et al. (2017). Good Practice Guidance SDG Indicator 13.3.1: 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…)

Organization(s) supporting financially a given project, programme or initiative.

Spatial disaggregation or downscaling is the process by which information at a coarse spatial scale is translated to finer scales while maintaining consistency in the original dataset.
(Source: http://www.integrated-assessment.eu/eu/guidebook/spatial_disaggregation…)

For spatial data stored in raster form, it is an indication of the size of a single pixel in ground dimensions. It is usually presented as a single value that represents the length of one side of a square. For example, a spatial resolution of 30 metres means that one pixel represents an area of 30 metres by 30 metres on the ground.
(Source: Born, M. & Wolf, E (1999). Principles of Optics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge)

Higher level objectives defined in the context of The UNCCD 2018-2030 Strategic Framework to guide the actions of all UNCCD stakeholders and partners in the 2018-2030 period. More specifically, the UNCCD 2018-2030 Strategic Framework defines the following strategic objectives:
Strategic objective 1: To improve the condition of affected ecosystems, combat desertification/land degradation, promote sustainable land management and contribute to land degradation neutrality
Strategic objective 2: To improve the living conditions of affected populations
Strategic objective 3: To mitigate, adapt to

Strategies are plans or methods for achieving a particular goal usually over a long period of time.
(Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/)

Involves the protection of springs, rivers, and lakes from pollution, high water flows (floods), or over-abstraction of water.
(Source: WOCAT glossary https://www.wocat.net/glossary)

Sustainable consumption is production that is economically viable and does not degrade the environment over the long run.
See also: ‘Sustainable production’.

On 1 January 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — adopted by world leaders in September 2015 at an historic UN Summit — officially came into force. Over the next fifteen years, with these new Goals that universally apply to all, countries will mobilize efforts to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind.
(Source: http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/development-agenda/)

Sustainable production is production that is economically viable and does not degrade the environment over the long run.
See also: ‘Sustainable consumption’.
(Source: http://stats.oecd.org/glossary/)

A web-based system explicitly designed for the management and sharing of knowledge at subregional level (such as data, information, tools, skills, expertise, best practices and success stories) among members within an organization or a network (for example, the subregional aggregated data in the PRAIS portal).