Within the framework of the GEF/ FAO project ‘Decision Support for Mainstreaming and Scaling out SLM (DS-SLM)’ the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment Tunisia together with FAO and WOCAT organized a workshop with SLM experts and decision-makers to formulate a concrete SLM mainstreaming and scaling out strategy for four selected target regions.

Discover the new publication by CIAT on "Socioeconomic factors that constrain or facilitate the adoption of technologies that promote sequestration of soil carbon in East Africa" analyzing the information gathered in a literature review and the analysis of SLM practices from Ethiopia and Kenya documented in the Global SLM Database.

In the context of the harmonization of the Carbon Benefit tool and the Global SLM Database, a new edition of the questionnaire for Technologies has been launched and is now available in the WOCAT media library. Please only use this edition for your documentation of SLM Technologies.

UNCCD commissions a study on “The role that measures taken to implement the Convention can play to address desertification, land degradation and drought as one of the drivers that cause migration.” The study will be presented at the UNCCD COP14 in 2019. They invite for contributions from Parties, UN Agencies and other international organizations, civil society organizations (CSOs) and researchers on documented good practice that contribute to addressing the adverse drivers of migration related to DLDD.

A new Compilation of SLM Technologies from Cambodia was created by the Royal University of Agriculture Cambodia within the project Scaling-up SLM by smallholder farmers - Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Uganda. The publication is available in English and Khmer.

The WOCAT Consortium partners ISRIC and GIZ organized a workshop to discuss the planned project proposal for a Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) mapping tool. Actors, among them various UNCCD focal points, from local, national and global level have participated in the workshop, sharing their experience and needs to report on SDG 15.3.

Today, the World Mountain Forum 2018 has opened. The Forum will be held from 23-26 October 2018 in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, to advance the agenda on sustainable mountain development by building on past achievements and successes and sets to develop scenarios for a thriving mountain future. At the Forum, WOCAT and the Carbon Benefit Project will be presented by Farrukh Nazarmavlov today and tomorrow.

Every two-three years, ILC organises the Global Land Forum (GLF). This unique event brings together ILC members and other stakeholders from grassroots organisations, activists, local and international NGOs, and researchers, to multilateral organisations and government agencies from around the world to advance understanding of the complex and dynamic political, economic, environmental and social linkages between land governance, food security, poverty and democracy.

The GIZ programme 'Soil protection and rehabilitation for food security', in collaboration with University of Leeds and ICRISAT has developed the new Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) 'Land Matters! Integrating soil degradation concerns and solutions into policy processes'.