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THE WOCATEER
(No. 6- Autumn 2002)

(WOCAT Newsletter)

back to WOCATEER 6

Synergies, complementarities between  LADA and WOCAT.

Programmes Scale: Area Time frame

Goal / objectives

Main focus

Target groups: Ranking

Level / Scale

Method

Procedures

Socio-economic

indicators

Major Bio-physical

indicators

LADA

drylands

 

10 years +

Development and widespread application of a methodology  to assess and quantify the nature, extent, severity impact and root causes of  land degradation and remedial solutions

Degradation (red spots)

 

Local, national
(and global)

SLA, PRA WOCAT, …

Identify problem areas

….

++++

++++

WOCAT

All ecozones

 

10 years +

Development and widespread application of a methodology  to

document, evaluate (assess), quantify and disseminate good land management practices

 

Case studies: Good management practices (green spots).

 

Mapping: soil degradation  AND conservation per land use type and per area units

Case studies:

SWC specialists at subnational and national level

 

Mapping: subnational and national planners, bilateral projects, donors

Local case studies,

from hectares to thousands of ha

National (and global) overviews,

Mapping: scale independent method from “village” to national (to global)

Local: Case studies: standardized WOCAT framework: questionnaires, database system, involving SWC specialists and land users (incl. expert assessment participatory methods)

 

National: Standardized WOCAT Mapping through participatory expert system; linking to research adding other tools like Remote Sensing, modelling

1. Identify good responses to degradation (through workshops with national and subnational specialists)

2. Document, evaluate and disseminate (framework: questionnaires, database system, CD-ROM internet, workshops and books

3. Guidelines for evaluation and the search of appropriate solutions to problems (transfer, adaptations, …)

++++

Cost benefits,

Land use rights, incentives, involvement in decision making, …

 

++++

degradation signs,

yields, ….