Latest News

• WOCAT Symposium on Promoting Sustainable Land Management (SLM) for its Local and Global Impacts , Monday 20 October in Berne. The Symposium will take place on the first day of the 13 th WOCAT Annual Workshop and Steering Meeting in Switzerland. Announcement and detailed programme are following soon.

• The 13 th WOCAT Annual Workshop and Steering Meeting (WWSM) will be held from 20 - 25 October in Berne and Gwatt, Switzerland. First day of the WWSM will be an open Symposium for various partners and donors of WOCAT. The Symposium will take place in Berne, whereas the following days of the WWSM will be spend in Gwatt.

• New WOCAT online address database is accesible now. This database enables you to get access to the addresses of all WOCAT partners , collaborating and participating institutions.

• The NEPCAT fact sheets got published! Including 30 technologies and approaches from the Nepal Conservation Approaches and Technologies (NEPCAT) database. The fact sheets are designed to support the efforts of rural development, especially in Nepal , and provide impetus and ideas for decision makers, development actors, and land users.

• Climate change: New article about the use of WOCAT tools and network to prepare for SLM adaptation to climate change is available now.

• Book review of 'where the land is grenner' in the ESSC newsletter of January 2008 (page 21-22).

• The revised approach and technology basic questionnaires are available now: Technology Basic - Approach Basic
  The revision of the basic version of the questionnaires is related to several types of changes. Some questions, definitions, and comments needed reformulation to become clearer, some questions were newly added to respond to users need related to global issues and ecosystem services, and some questions were omitted altogether.

• The changes in the questionnaire basic implicated an adaptation of the templates to the 4-page summaries used in the global WOCAT overview book ‘where the land is greener’. They can be used to present and compile technologies and approaches for national / regional overviews in an attractive manner.

• WOCAT on Google Earth is available now!

• WOCAT in Bangladesh has launched its own website: www.bangcat.org

• The new WOCAT Strategy (2008 - 2012) is available.

• Participate in our survey on the use of WOCAT in research and education!

• WOCAT world map initiative: Please provide information on the most important SWC technologies in your country (fill in the form)!