http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/10148 2017-08-21T09:38:15Z info:eu-repo/semantics/descriptiveMetadata http://oar.icrisat.org/10148/ Strategies and policies to reach a land-degradation neutral world Whitbread, A M Akhtar-Schuster, M Erlewein, A Kizito, F Nkonya, E Scherr, S Shames, S Tamene, L Winowiecki, L Drylands Agriculture African Agriculture Sub-Saharan Africa Drylands Despite the difficulties in quantifying the extent and degree of land degradation or restoration, evidence shows that continued land degradation will be an impediment to meeting several SDGs. The United Nations states that it aims for land degradation neutrality (LDN) which in 2015 became firmly established as an agreed-upon objective in the realm of international environmental politics. First, as part of the SDGs whose Target 15.3 calls to “combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradationneutral world” by 2030 (UNGA, 2015). The Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) took the decision to align the implementation of the Convention with SDG 15.3 and invited its Parties to set voluntary LDN targets (UNCCD, 2015). From that point onwards, the key question is how to implement these global aspirations at the national level and what is needed to operationalize the LDN concept and translate it into concrete strategies to meet LDN at scale... International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) Vlek, P L G Khamzina,, A Tamene, L 2017 Book Section PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://oar.icrisat.org/10148/1/Strategies%20and%20policies%20to%20reach%20a%20land-degradation%20neutral%20world.pdf Whitbread, A M and Akhtar-Schuster, M and Erlewein, A and Kizito, F and Nkonya, E and Scherr, S and Shames, S and Tamene, L and Winowiecki, L (2017) Strategies and policies to reach a land-degradation neutral world. In: Land degradation and the Sustainable Development Goals: Threats and potential remedies. CIAT Publication No. 440 . International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Nairobi, Kenya, pp. 39-45. https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/81313 info:eu-repo/semantics/objectFile info:eu-repo/semantics/humanStartPage