The Observatorio Nacional de la Degradación de Tierras y Desertificación (ONDTyD) and the Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Áridas (IADIZA-CONICET) organize the first conference on integrated evaluation of desertification: approaches and socio-environmental methodologies, on 25-26  September 2018 in Mendoza, Argentina.

WOCAT partner Uganda Landcare Network exhibits at the National Agricultural Show 2018 of the Uganda National Farmers Federation and shows how to scale Sustainable Land Management practices. CDE - Centre for Development and Environment, University of Bern International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)

In Cambodia, the Royal University of Agriculture (RUA), partner of WOCAT in the IFAD-funded project ‘Scaling-up SLM with smallholder farmers’, held its yearly National Expert Group meeting attended by UNCCD focal point Dr. Meas Pyseth, RUA Vice Rector Dr. Sok Kunthy, Deputy Director of CARDI Dr. Seng Vang and the Director of the Department of Agricultural Extension Dr. Mao Minea. They discussed the project’s contribution to address land degradation issues and promote SLM practices among stakeholders and farmers in Cambodia thereby contributing to achieving land degradation neutrality.

Mr. Jalal Uddin from the Bangladesh Conservation Approaches and Technologies (BANCAT) developed a new manual for the GEF project ‘Establishing National Land Use and Land Degradation Profile Towards Mainstreaming SLM practices in sectors Policies (ENALULDEP/SLM)’ to support project participants to document and implement SLM Technologies and Approaches in hot spots all over the country, contributing to achieving SDG 15 life on land.

The NEPAD Planning and Coordinating Agency, hosting the TerrAfrica Partnership, organized a workshop on the operationalization of AfriOCAT in Dar Es Saalam, Tanzania. During this meeting new strategies where disucssed.

The new NEPCAT fact sheets (documented by HELVETAS Nepal) and a fact sheet from Myanmar are now available online. This factsheets have been created with the support of the WOCAT Consortium Partner ICIMOD.

Go to the NEPCAT factsheet.

Go to the Myanmar factsheet.

Esta guía fue realizada por solicitud del Ministerio de Ambiente y Desarrollo Sostenible de Colombia, en respuesta a los crecientes problemas de degradación del suelo. Su objetivo es proporcionar buenas prácticas para la conservación, el uso sostenible y la protección de los suelos en las zonas rurales del país.

¡Miren qué hace la Unidad de Planificación Rural Agropecuaria (UPRA) en colaboración con la FAO y WOCAT para luchar contra la degradación de las tierras en Colombia en el proyecto DS-SLM!

Have a look what the Unidad de Planificación Rural Agropecuaria (UPRA) and FAO in collaboration with WOCAT are doing to combat land degradation in Colombia within the framework of the DS-SLM project!

WAD has been launched. WOCAT has seven pages on solutions in this Atlas representing some insights from analysis on the Global SLM Database and a focus on Central Asia, and a number of nice photographs spread within the Atlas.

Innovations Environnement Développement afrique" (IED afrique) has recently pubished their new publication on SLM and resilience-building in the Sahel. This publication includes a discussion of scope for further use of participatory resource mapping tools and OpenStreetMap to map and measure the impacts of SLM practices in Sub-Saharan Africa over the coming years.

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'. 

The UN focuses on “nature-based solutions” as the theme for the 2018 World Water Day and World Water Development Report. The aim of this week is to align the present 2018 Thematic Scope with this, and to go further to explore the wider water, ecosystems and human development agenda.

Training Workshop on WOCAT SLM Technologies and Approaches Questionnaires and Database, 6-9 August 2017, Bangkok, Thailand organized within the framework of the GEF/DS-SLM project together with FAO, WOCAT and the Land Development Department Thailand.

Training workshop on participatory co-management of natural resources organized within the framework of the FAO project on Participatory and integrated watershed management project for erosion control (GCP/MOR/050/SWI). CDE, University of Bern, and the School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences (HAFL) held the workshop with a strong focus on participatory rangeland management. The project has documented 11 SLM Technologies and 4 SLM Approaches.