Soil and the SDGs conference is organised on behalf of the European Commission, and it is an opportunity for policy makers, public institutions, researchers, industry and civil society to come together to exchange knowledge and practices on the implementation in the EU of soil and land-related SDGs, and particularly the Land Degradation Neutrality target. During this one-day conference with a rich agenda, the stakeholders will first address the…

Out of concern that “desertification and drought are problems of global dimension in that they affect all regions of the world,” the international community adopted the Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Paris on 17 June 1994. The anniversary campaign will run under the slogan "25 YEARS – Let's grow the future together," with the global observance of WDCD and the 25th anniversary of the Convention on 17 June 2019 in Ankara, hosted by…

An EU initiative against deforestation and forest degradation is a response to the persistence of the issue of global deforestation and the increasing awareness of the link between deforestation and agricultural expansion. The EU, as a major importer of agricultural commodities, is part of the problem but can also be part of the solution. You can contribute to this consultation by filling in the online questionnaire. Questionnaires are available…

The accredited international postgraduate program Agricultural Sciences and Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics (ARTS) at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Bonn cordially invites you to join the ARTS Seminar on the Sustainable Development Goal 15: Combatting Desertification. On February 11th Dr. Barron Joseph Orr will give a presentation on SDG15: "Combatting Desertification". Dr. Barron Joseph Orr is the Lead…

Interested in learning more about the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification's (UNCCD) Capacity Building Marketplace (CBM)? The Centre For Earth Works (CFEW) will be hosting a Youth4Land twitter-chat on the 29th of November, 2018 at 15:00. Join Dr. Richard Byron-Cox, who is the Action Programme Alignment and Capacity Building Officer of the Convention as he speaks about ''the role of Capacity Building Market place platform in…

The Global Mechanism is an institution of the UNCCD, mandated to assist countries in the mobilization of financial resources from the public and private sector for activities that prevent, control or reserve desertification, land degradation and drought. As the operational arm of the convention, the Global Mechanism supports countries to translate the Convention into action and to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) at the national level…

Entrepreneurs throughout South Asia are looking toward the land, which has suffered from decades of degradation. Their mission is to heal this damage and build strong rural economies. The opportunity is big: nearly 140 million hectares of land in India alone could benefit from restoration. That is around 42% of its entire area, much of it managed by rural small landholders and tribal communities. Through the past six months of training and…

Integrated landscape management and large-scale landscape restoration should be in every company’s business strategy because in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goal on Land Degradation Neutrality (SDG Number 15.3) scaling up and acceleration of business-driven landscape restoration is urgently needed. What you will learn from this course? The business potential for Integrated Landscape Management and Restoration; Land degradation and…

The landscape of the project presents a variety of ecosystems providing services upon which local population heavily depends. A large portion of the landscape is now degraded, considering current changes in land use due to expansion of agriculture fields and human settlements, largely driven by high population growth. There is also increasing pressure on the land to accommodate a population that is still rising in the Mt Elgon region and the…