towards land degradation neutrality maintaining or improving the condition of our land resources by...
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Towards land degradation neutrality
Maintaining or improving the condition of our land resources
by securing healthy and productive land will dramatically
reduce poverty, ensure food and water security and improve
the living conditions of countless people around the world.
Our future depends on the land and its resources.
The sustainable management of our soil, water and
biodiversity can help realize their economic, social and
environmental benefits. LDN also includes the restoration of
degraded natural ecosystems that provide vital services to
people and working landscapes.”(Source: www.UNCCD.int)
The World Overview of Conservation Approaches and
Technologies (WOCAT) promotes sustainable land
management (SLM) and shares their knowledge. Their
network of specialists facilitates the reporting, the
dissemination and the implementation of locally adapted
SLM practices.
WOCAT defines 4 categories of measures to prevent,
mitigate and rehabilitate land degradation and restore
ecosystem services. Agronomic measures improve the soil
(mulching, manuring, conservation tillage). Vegetative
measures consist in planting trees, shrubs or grasses.
Structural measures change the structure of the land
(terraces, dams, ditches). Management measures include
change of land use, intensity, timing. Combinations of
measures are possible.
WOCAT, 2011
The Great Green Wall of Africa’s objective is to improve the
resilience of human and natural systems in Sahel and Saharan
areas faced with climate change through healthy ecosystem
management and sustainable development of natural
resources (water, soil, vegetation, fauna, flora), protection of
tangible and intangible rural heritage, the development of
rural production and sustainable development hubs,
improvement of living conditions and livelihoods of people
living in these areas
Pierre GRARD - CIRAD
Restoration of 600 ha of rainforest in the Bulcão Farm, Minas Gerais, BrazilThe Instituto Terra committed itself to the recovery of the rainforest in the completely devastated former cattle farm. Over 10 years, over two million seedlings of more than 290 species of trees were planted, recreating a forest of arboreal and shrub species native to the Atlantic Forest.While diverse soils are found of the farm, dark red ‘eutrophic’ soils predominate, that is, soils of great natural fertility, but highly susceptible to erosion and with little water infiltration capacity.By halting erosion of the soil, the replanting of the ground cover at the PNHR Bulcão Farm is fostering a revival of the farm’s water resources - both in quantity and quality. Fauna are turning: many species that were disappearing now find a secure home in Balcão Farm.