Browsing Factsheets, Infographics and Brochures by Subject "LAND DEGRADATION"
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Cross-cutting Capacity Development
(2017)Despite population growth, increased urbanization, and accelerating climate change, we can reverse the damage that human activity has caused to our environment. With funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), UN ... -
GEO-6 Land and Soil - Infographic
(2019)Sustainable land management is a major instrument for climate change mitigation because it improves carbon sequestration in the soil. -
Land Degradation
(2017)UN Environment and the Global Environment Facility have worked together on more than 160 projects, promoting sustainable land management practices and helping countries around the world to restore degraded land. This ... -
Land Degradation - Factsheet
(2017)Healthy landscapes are fundamental to the health of life on earth. From food production to quality air and water, nutrient cycling and soil formation, we depend on our land for the very basics of existence. Land degradation ... -
Land Restoration for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals - An International Resource Panel Think Piece
(2024-04)Some 25 per cent of the world’s land is degraded. Land restoration and rehabilitation together represent one of three primary strategies for achieving SDG 15 (Life on land), and particularly for meeting the land degradation ... -
South Africa: Sustainable Production and Commercialization Strategies in the Agri-food Sector in South Africa - SWITCH Africa Green
(2021)This impact sheet on ‘Sustainable production and commercialization strategies in the agri-food sector in South Africa’ provides a snapshot of results and achievements of the project under the Green Business Development ... -
A Task Force on Best Practices: Preparing the Ground for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021–2030
(2021)Unsustainable land use and the destruction of natural ecosystems have contributed to global land degradation, climate change and biodiversity loss. To prevent, halt and reverse the degradation of ecosystems worldwide, the ... -
Urbanization and Economic Growth in Latin America and Caribbean Damaging Air and Water Quality
(2016)Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is a biologically rich region with complex political, social and natural contrasts. However, economies share a heavy reliance on primary products and natural resources, which account ...