On April 1st 2021, the WOCAT Steering Committee with the participation of WOCAT's Consortium Partners ISRIC, ICARDA, FAO, ICIMOD, GIZ, CIAT-Bioversity and CDE endorsed the amended Framework Agreement and new organizational structure. With this, Hanspeter Liniger, long-term WOCAT Director, ends his assignment and hands over his responsibilities to the new WOCAT Executive Team comprised of CDE, ISRIC and ICARDA.

On International Forest Day, we share findings that relate land and forests and the interconnections between both. For this day, we have selected our Technologies and Approaches aiming to ensure sustainable land management whilst protecting forests within a particular environment. To learn more, visit our Twitter page and Facebook page and learn here from the Statement by the UNCCD Executive Secretary Ibrahim Thiaw: “This year’s International Day of Forests theme of ‘Forest restoration: a path to recovery and well-being’ emphasizes the role forests must play in building a better, heathier and more equitable world as we recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.”

After a long journey LUP4LDN tool from SCiO, ICARDA, WOCAT, Università degli Studi di Sassari and ELD wins the GEO-LDN Competition and  will receive financial and technical support to transform their prototype into an operational and scalable tool.

Learn how Bosnia and Herzegovina is mainstreaming and scaling out SLM practices in this new publication by WOCAT partners from the University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences.

The African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) and WOCAT will work together to enhance capacities of extension services and farmers in SLM and support the scaling of SLM innovations in Africa.

Partnering for impact: IICA, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture, and WOCAT signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together to strengthen SLM activities and promote healthy soils in agricultural and livestock production systems in the Americas.