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Sustainable Land Management to Achieving Land Degradation Neutrality: Options-by-Context Approach and Tool

Institutional & promotional materials
October, 2017
Tunisia
Northern Africa

This is the program of the closure workshop "Sustainable Land Management to Achieve Land Degradation Neutrality: Options-by-Context Approach and Tools" of the project "Impact Evaluation of SLM Options to Achieve Land Degradation Neutrality".

Overview of project results (English version)

Institutional & promotional materials
October, 2017
Tunisia
Northern Africa

This is the presentation of Dr. Quang Bao Le during the workshop "Sustainable Land Management to Achieving Land Degradation Neutrality: Options-by-Context Approach and Tool", final workshop for the project "Impact Evaluation of SLM Options to Achieve Land Degradation Neutrality", held in Tunis on the 24th October 2017. This presentation highlights the progress of the project.

Multi-temporal and multi-scale assessment of landscape pattern dynamics in Tunisia using MODIS and Landsat data (French version)

Institutional & promotional materials
October, 2017
Tunisia
Northern Africa

This is the presentation of Dr. Badabate Diwediga during the workshop "Sustainable Land Management to Achieving Land Degradation Neutrality: Options-by-Context Approach and Tool", final workshop for the project "Impact Evaluation of SLM Options to Achieve Land Degradation Neutrality", held in Tunis on the 24th October 2017. This presentation is a landscape dynamics analysis in Tunisia.

SLM options in Zaghouan: current patterns, issues on technological, economic and ecological efficiencies, adoptions and recommendations for effective out-scaling

Institutional & promotional materials
October, 2017
Tunisia
Northern Africa

This is the presentation of Dr. Taoufik Hermassi during the workshop "Sustainable Land Management to Achieving Land Degradation Neutrality: Options-by-Context Approach and Tool", final workshop for the project "Impact Evaluation of SLM Options to Achieve Land Degradation Neutrality", held in Tunis on the 24th October 2017. This presentation highlights the SLM techniques documented by the team in Zaghouan governorate.

Integrating Biophysical and Socio-Economic Approaches to Identify Suitable Policy Incentives for Enhancing Sustainable Water and Land Use (WLI project a case study of Iraq)

Reports & Research
October, 2017
Iraq
Western Asia

It is no doubt that water resource is considered as main determining factor for agriculture and the adoption of modern irrigation technique would preserve this important resource. The shortage of rain in middle and southern Iraq pushes farmers to depend on irrigated agriculture especially from its main resource Euphrates and Tigris and their tributaries.

Improved Institutions and Governance Mechanisms for Resilient Pastoral Policies in North Africa

Institutional & promotional materials
October, 2017
Tunisia
Northern Africa

Rangelands in North Africa provide vital ecosystem services and play an important role in absorbing CO2. In Tunisia rangelands cover 4.5 million hectares – some 25% of the country’s total landmass. The sustainable management of these arid areas presents complex challenges for local authorities and the communities that depend on them. For centuries, herders have relied on communal rangelands as an effective adaptation strategy for coping with drought.

The Sino-Brazilian Telecoupled Soybean System and Cascading Effects for the Exporting Country

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2017
Brazil
China

The global food market makes international players intrinsically connected through the flow of commodities, demand, production, and consumption. Local decisions, such as new economic policies or dietary shifts, can foster changes in coupled human–natural systems across long distances. Understanding the causes and effects of these changes is essential for agricultural-export countries, such as Brazil. Since 2000, Brazil has led the expansion of soybean planted area—19 million hectares, or 47.5% of the world’s increase. Soybean is among the major crop commodities traded globally.

The Influence of Geology on Landscape Typology in Jordan: Theoretical Understanding and Planning Implications

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2017
Jordan

Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) has been introduced into Jordan through the MEDSCAPES project. The purpose of this project was to streamline landscape studies and integrate them into the land use planning practices in Jordan. Two areas within the Mediterranean and arid climatic zones of the country were chosen as test areas for the methodology. These were the Yarmouk River drainage basin in the northwest of the country and the Mujib River area in the west of Jordan within the Dead Sea basin.

High-Resolution Vegetation Mapping in Japan by Combining Sentinel-2 and Landsat 8 Based Multi-Temporal Datasets through Machine Learning and Cross-Validation Approach

Peer-reviewed publication
September, 2017
Japan

This paper presents an evaluation of the multi-source satellite datasets such as Sentinel-2, Landsat-8, and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) with different spatial and temporal resolutions for nationwide vegetation mapping. The random forests based machine learning and cross-validation approach was applied for evaluating the performance of different datasets.