“Land Degradation Neutrality” provides a framework for a balanced approach, which considers trade-offs and anticipates new degradation in order to maintain or enhance the amount of healthy and productive land resources, in line with national development priorities.
Achieving LDN is one of the targets of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 15, which promotes “Life on Land”. SDG target 15.3 states: ‘By 2030, combat desertification, restore degraded land and soil, including land affected by desertification, drought and floods, and strive to achieve a land degradation–neutral world’. SDG Indicator 15.3.1 measures the proportion of land that is degraded over total land area.
More information: LDN Scientific Conceptual Framework, SDG 15.3 metadata
With the new WOCAT 2020+ strategy, WOCAT aims to be a leading and collaborative platform of expertise and a major transformative force in supporting countries and institutions around the world to scale up SLM and achieve LDN.
With the new UNCCD-WOCAT partnership agreement, which was signed in February 2020, and the role and representation in various projects and initiatives, WOCAT and its partners have a say, but also a responsibility in the global LDN discourse. Official UNCCD recognition gives WOCAT the mandate to support the 194 signatory countries in recording their SLM best practices and using the SLM knowledge of stakeholders worldwide – from land users to decision-makers – to improve local land management and achieve LDN.
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