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Her Land. Her Rights: Advancing gender equality to restore land and build resilience

Policy Papers & Briefs
June, 2023
Global
Land & Gender
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
development
desertification
women
This policy brief highlights the critical role of gender-responsive approaches to land tenure that empower women and accelerate the implementation of land restoration commitments that build community resilience. It examines how greater tenure security for women and girls can lead to a more equitable and sustainable land management. The brief builds upon the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) 2018–2030 Strategic Framework and its Gender Action Plan adopted in 2017.
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Land-Drought Nexus: Enhancing the Role of Land-Based Interventions in Drought Mitigation and Risk Management. A report of the Science-Policy Interface

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2019
Global
Land & Gender
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land management
land degradation
land use
women
This UNCCD-SPI technical report provides well-established scientific evidence for understanding the strong linkages between land use and drought and how management of both is connected through water use. It introduces a new concept of Drought-smart land management (D-SLM) and organizes relevant approaches and practices in fourteen groups across four major classes of land use.
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Realising the Carbon Benefits of Sustainable Land Management Practices. Guidelines for estimation of soil organic carbon in the context of land degradation neutrality planning and monitoring. A report of the Science-Policy Interface

Journal Articles & Books
December, 2019
Global
Land & Gender
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
land-use planning
land degradation
sustainable land management
women
The UNCCD-SPI technical report “Realising the Carbon Benefits of Sustainable Land Management Practices: Guidelines for Estimation of Soil Organic Carbon in the Context of Land Degradation” provides decision guidance for the estimation of soil organic carbon (SOC) in support of appropriate deployment of sustainable land management (SLM) technologies, in order to maintain or increase carbon in the soil and contribute to the achievement of land degradation neutrality (LDN).
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UNCCD Advocacy Policy Framework On Gender

Reports & Research
December, 2013
Global
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
desertification
sustainable land management
women
Gender equity is a matter of fundamental human rights and social justice, as well as a pre-condition for sustainable development. The empowerment of women and gender equity has been recognized as a significant driver of development, enhancing the effectiveness of programs, projects, and initiatives.
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Creating an Enabling Environment for Land Degradation Neutrality and its potential contribution to enhancing well-being, livelihoods and the environment

Reports & Research
December, 2019
Global
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
VGGT
food security
land policies
land management
climate change
land degradation
abandoned land
drylands
biodiversity
water management
women
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015 include a target on land degradation neutrality (LDN) (SDG 15.3). Attaining and maintaining LDN requires addressing a land governance challenge to steer land management towards avoiding, reducing and reversing land degradation.
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A Manual for Gender-Responsive Land Degradation Neutrality Transformative Projects and Programmes.

Manuals & Guidelines
September, 2019
Global
Land & Gender
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
VGGT
gender equity
gender equity in access to land
land governance
sustainable development
land management
land degradation
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
monitoring
women
Climate- and human-induced land degradation endangers the future survival of our planet. A new focus on achieving Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) seeks to spark and grow transformative efforts to avoid, reduce and reverse land degradation through gender- and socially-equitable means.
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New and emerging issues: land tenure

Note by the secretariat

Legislation & Policies
UN Resolutions
August, 2019
Global
Land & Food Security
Land Degradation & Tenure
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
VGGT
gender equity
land governance
poverty
food security
land degradation
farming systems
water management
land economics
land tenure
tenure security
women
As per the provisions of rule 10 of the rules of procedures of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Conference of the Parties (COP), the second intersessional meeting of the Bureau of the thirteenth session of the COP (COP 13) held in Guiyang, China, on 26 February 2019, endorsed the inclusion of a new agenda item on land tenure, under new and emerging issues, for consideration at COP 14. The Bureau further requested the secretariat to submit a background document in that respect.
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UNCCD Decision 26 / COP.14 Land tenure

UN Resolutions
November, 2019
Global
Land Degradation & Tenure
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
VGGT
gender equity in access to land
land governance
sustainable development
desertification
land degradation
land tenure
customary land rights
land tenure systems
women
UNCCD Decision 26 / COP.14 Land tenure
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Strengthening Dryland Women's Land Rights

Local Contexts, Global Change

Reports & Research
December, 2015
Global
Land & Gender
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
environment
gender equity in access to land
land rights
rural areas
sustainable land management
women
Land and land-based natural resources are the foundation of livelihoods for millions of people and are related to social, cultural and spiritual identity. This is particularly the case for drylands people, who, due to low and variable rainfall and water availability, have developed adaptive strategies in response to seasonal, climatic and environmental change. Gender role norms play an important role in these dynamics, where men and women often undertake different livelihood activities to manage difficult ecological conditions.
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UNCCD Advocacy Policy Framework on Gender

Policy Papers & Briefs
September, 2013
Global
Land & Gender
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Rangelands, Drylands & Pastoralism
agricultural land management
desertification
farming systems
land degradation
sustainable land use
women
The UNCCD Advocacy Policy Framework (APF) on gender, approved by the COP10 (Decision 9), demonstrates the benefits of mainstreaming gender in Desertification/Land Degradation and Drought (DDLD)/ Sustainable Land Management (SLM) actions at national and local levels. The framework recognizes that gender mainstreaming has to take place at various levels involving multiple stakeholders. It is through the full participation of local people, especially women, that the efforts efforts to combat desertification can be most effective.