Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) target 15.3 commits countries to strive towards land degradation neutrality (LDN) by 2030. LDN requires reductions in land quality to be balanced by efforts to restore or rehabilitate degraded areas. However, decisions need to be made as to where to invest given limited budgets and the impossibility of targeting all degraded land. Any prioritisation process is likely to be controversial and needs to be underpinned by transparent, justifiable, repeatable decision processes.

As one of the few remaining countries with a robust, nomadic pastoral culture supported by extensive natural rangelands, Mongolia is well positioned to offer sustainable, rangeland-based goods and services to its citizens and to global consumers who place a premium on sustainable products. The primary challenge to sustainable livestock production in Mongolia is that rangeland health, the set of environmental conditions that sustain the productivity and biodiversity of rangelands is in decline in many areas.

Настоящие “Добровольные руководящие принципы рационального использования почвенных ресурсов” (ДРПРИПР) были выработаны в ходе подразумевающего широкое участие процесса в рамках Глобального почвенного партнерства (ГПП). Они должны стать справочным документом, содержащим общие технические и политические рекомендации в области рационального использования почвенных ресурсов (РИПР) для широкого круга приверженных своему делу заинтересованных сторон.

In order to celebrate the International Mountain Day and advocate for the importance of sustainable mountain development, the attached infographic will be used as a communication tool that showcases in a nutshell some of the most important facts and figure concerning mountains, their ecosystems and their communities. The infographic will highlight the IMD 2018 theme “Mountains matter” through relevant data on biodiversity, population, food insecurity, disasters etc as well as provide recommendations.

وُيعت اسطوط التوجيهية الطوعية للإدارة المستدامة للتربة من خلال عملية شاملة في إطار الشراكة العالمية من أجل التربة. وهي تهدف إلى أن تكون مرجعاً يوفّر توايات فنية وسياساتية عامة بشأن الإدارة المستدامة للتربةة لطائفةة واسةةعة مةةن أاةةحاب المصةةلحة الملتةةزم . واعتمةةدت الجمعيةةة العامةةة الرابعةةة للشةةراكة العالميةةة مةةن أجةةل التربةةة )روما، 25 مايوحأيار 2016 ( اسطوط التوجيهية، ووافقت عليها لجنة الزراعة لمنظمة الأغذية والزراعة في دورتهةا ) --( )روما، --(، وأقرينها أخ اً مجلس المنظمة في دورتلخ )--( )روما، --(.

Uganda has been monitoring its forest resources through mapping and forest inventories since the 1990s. However, the approach and frequency of data generation needs to be improved if the country is to construct a reference level compliant with the principles of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Efforts were also needed to assess forest cover change in the country.

La régénération de la mangrove n’est pas une tâche simple, elle nécessite un certain nombre de précautions et d’engagements de la part des populations concernées et des autorités locales tout comme les institutions gouvernementales et/ou non gouvernementales. L’un des principes de réussite de cette activité de reforestation est de rendre les communautés locales actrices et porteuses du projet. Dans ce cadre, la sensibilisation des populations riveraines aux enjeux de la protection des ressources naturelles : mangrove, couvert végétal et stocks de poissons apparaît primordiale.

Le mode de gestion permettant aux communautés locales de disposer des droits suffisants sur les ressources forestières pour les gérer durablement, en toute autonomie, n’est pas encore assez répandu en Afrique centrale. Il était donc opportun de rechercher le meilleur moyen de permettre à un tel mode de gestion d’exprimer son plein potentiel.

This fact sheet describes the following e-learning course: This course focuses on water management and its critical role in climate-smart agriculture. It analyses the impacts of climate change on the availability of freshwater resources for agriculture and considers possible water management options for adaptation to climate change and for climate change mitigation.

Over the past decades, progress towards Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) in Africa has been made at national and subregionallevels. At national level, 43 African countries have developed specific forest law and 40 have a national forest policy. At subregionallevel, efforts to harmonize policies and programmeshave resulted in the development of the Convergence Plan of the Central African Forests Commission and the Convergence Plan for the Sustainable Management and Use of Forest Ecosystems in West Africa.

This fact sheet presents a course that has been developed to guide countries in reporting on indicators 15.1.1 and 15.2.1. It illustrates the rationale of the indicators, the definitions and methodologies on which monitoring activities are based, and explains the process and the tools available for compiling data related to the two indicators through the Global Forest Resource Assessment (FRA) Programme.

By law, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Ethiopia are severely restricted in their activities towards policy development. In this study we explore to what extent these restrictions have affected NGOs in Natural Resource Management in the Oromia regional state of Ethiopia.