24 September 2022
Seventy percent of land in Mongolia has succumbed to desertification. The land has also come under relentless pressure from overgrazing by 60 million head of livestock and extractive industries like mining.
23 September 2022
The UNCCD is looking for a consultant to support efforts to integrate land tenure into the implementation of land degradation neutrality and land restoration initiatives.
13 September 2022
Different marginalized population groups like women, refugees, pastoralists and IPLC will be at the center of the discussion.
17 August 2022
There are too many animals for the available water supply in the Gobi desert region. The situation worsens each year.
Main photo: Bolortuya Bekh-Ochir, right, and Jargalsuren Tungalagzaya fill a trough with water for a herd of goats in Mongolia's Gobi desert region (URANCHIMEG TSOGKHUU, GPJ
16 August 2022
For almost three decades the ANC government failed to address the legacies of apartheid. We certainly do not expect it to rise to the challenge of ensuring a deep and transformative just transition, informed by climate justice.
16 August 2022
While the introduction to the framework acknowledges the urgency in climate science, it fails to recognise that we are living through climate extremes and their deleterious impacts. Moreover, the document does not mention upfront that we are one of 10 climate hotspots in the world, with a doubling
23 June 2022
Known as the rice basket of the country, the delta now sees houses tumbling into rivers and livelihoods lost
When a riverbank subsided and gave way, Tran Van Bi’s house collapsed into a river in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta four years ago. Everything his family had accumulated over 32 years was gone in
17 June 2022
June 17th 2022- Today marks #DesertificationAndDroughtDay and to highlight the occasion, the Land Portal, FAO and the UNCCD have come together to launch two new products; a portfolio and podcast, delving into the important relationship between land tenure and Land Degradation Neutrality.
14 June 2022
This episode of LandUP! addresses an emerging body of work on the nexus between land tenure and land degradation neutrality.
2 June 2022
Fires have swept through large swaths of peatland forest in the western part of Indonesia’s Sumatra Island since the start of the year, an area that usually sees much smaller, controlled fires.
Environmental activists say they suspect the fires might be linked to palm oil companies with plantations
23 May 2022
Gender equality is a key entry-point for Sustainable Land Management (SLM) and UNCCD together with WOCAT are working to improve gender-responsiveness of SLM practices.
23 May 2022
Pristine parts of northern Kachin State are under threat as demand grows for high-tech devices that rely on rare earth.
Main photo: The leaching ponds at a rare earth mining site in Kachin State, where toxic chemicals are applied to dissolve the metals. (PHOTO: Maran)
Kachin State’s Chipwi