eprintid: 10148
rev_number: 28
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datestamp: 2017-08-21 09:26:11
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creators_name: Whitbread, A M
creators_name: Akhtar-Schuster, M
creators_name: Erlewein, A
creators_name: Kizito, F
creators_name: Nkonya, E
creators_name: Scherr, S
creators_name: Shames, S
creators_name: Tamene, L
creators_name: Winowiecki, L
icrisatcreators_name: Whitbread, A M
affiliation: DesertNet International, c/o Biocentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, University of Hamburg (Hamburg)
affiliation: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH (Bonn)
affiliation: International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) (Kigali)
affiliation: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) (Washington)
affiliation: EcoAgriculture Partners (Washington)
affiliation: World Agroforestry Center (ICRAF) (Nairobi)
country: Germany
country: Rwanda
country: USA
country: Kenya
title: Strategies and policies to reach a land-degradation neutral world
ispublished: pub
subjects: s10
subjects: s28
subjects: s4004
subjects: s9
divisions: CRPS4
crps: crp1.1
crps: crp1.13
full_text_status: public
monograph_type: technical_report
keywords: Land-degradation, Land degradation neutrality, SDGs, Landscape restoration and rehabilitation, sub-Saharan Africa
abstract: 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...
date: 2017
date_type: published
series: CIAT Publication No. 440
publisher: International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
place_of_pub: Nairobi, Kenya
pagerange: 39-45
pages: 67
refereed: TRUE
book_title: Land degradation and the Sustainable Development Goals: Threats and potential remedies
editors_name: Vlek, P L G
editors_name: Khamzina,, A
editors_name: Tamene, L
official_url: https://cgspace.cgiar.org/handle/10568/81313
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citation:   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.      
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/10148/1/Strategies%20and%20policies%20to%20reach%20a%20land-degradation%20neutral%20world.pdf