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   Scaling up sustainable land management and restoration of degraded land

   Reports & Research

   December, 2017

   India, Nepal, Morocco, South Africa

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   farmland

   capacity development

   farmers

   sustainable development

   land management

   land degradation

   With current rates of land degradation reaching ten to twelve million ha per year, there is an urgent need to scale up and out successful, profitable and resource-efficient sustainable land management practices to maintain the health and resilience of the land that humans depend on. As much as 500 million out of two billion ha of degraded land, mainly in developing countries, have restoration potential, offering an immediate target for restoration and rehabilitation initiatives.1 In the past, piecemeal approaches to achieving sustainable land management have had limited impact.

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   Scaling up sustainable land management and restoration of degraded land

   Policy Papers & Briefs

   December, 2017

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   farmland

   capacity development

   sustainable development

   farmers

   land management

   land degradation

   With current rates of land degradation reaching ten to twelve million ha per year, there is an urgent need to scale up and out successful, profitable and resource-efficient sustainable land management practices to maintain the health and resilience of the land that humans depend on. As much as 500 million out of two billion ha of degraded land, mainly in developing countries, have restoration potential, offering an immediate target for restoration and rehabilitation initiatives.1 In the past, piecemeal approaches to achieving sustainable land management have had limited impact.

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   Assessment Toolkit: Assessing gender-sensitive implementation and country-level monitoring of the Tenure Governance and Africa Land Policy Guidelines

   Manuals & Guidelines

   Training Resources & Tools

   November, 2017

   Africa

   Land & Food Security

   Land & Gender

   VGGT

   land governance

   sustainable development

   food security

   land law

   tenure security

   capacity development

   farmers

   Indigenous Peoples

   local communities

   women

   This gender-sensitive toolkit enables civil society organisations, women and communities, as well as other actors to assess each country’s current legal framework and tenure governance arrangements in line with the provisions of the VGGTS and the AU F&G.

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   Consultative Meeting on Mechanization Strategy

   New Models for Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization in sub-Saharan Africa

   Reports & Research

   Training Resources & Tools

   July, 2017

   Sub-Saharan Africa

   agricultural land management

   capacity development

   farmers

   farming systems

   sustainable land management

   sustainable land use

   Sustainable agricultural mechanization (SAM) is an essential input for the development of the smallholder farm sector in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The benefits of SAM range from drudgery reduction to improved timeliness of agricultural operations, increased input use efficiency, facilitating sustainable production intensification, ensuring environmental protection, and contributing to make agriculture more ‘climate-smart’. SAM is also important at other levels of the food supply system, for example in post-harvest operations, processing, marketing and transportation.