FIELD Financial Information Engine on Land Degradation

As the GEF land degradation executing agency linked to the GM, IFAD has the opportunity to match land degradation to poverty reduction and development concerns.

Conversely, deforestation can contribute to land degradation and desertification.

Desertification (land degradation caused by aridity) and overgrazing are also problems.

Reintroduction of indigenous vegetation will help with the degradation of the land.

(6) Control of Land Degradation and Desertification processes in the insular Caribbean

Scope and Coherence of the Land Degradation Activities in the GEF, paras.

Through conservation agriculture practices, farmers contribute to reducing emissions while combating land degradation.

Certain projects currently in progress in countries or pilot areas are endeavouring to produce vulnerability maps of degradation or the risk of land degradation.

Poverty and land degradation characteristics may vary from location to location and according to land and livelihood management and policy.

Land degradation is sometimes monitored under regional programmes or in cooperation with international agencies.

This contribution was provided to undertake land degradation projects in some African country Parties.

Since then, POPs and land degradation (desertification) have been added as GEF focal areas.

It was created before the land degradation focal area was added to the GEF.

At the regional and subregional levels, FAO has initiated and prepared the Land Degradation Assessment in the Drylands (LADA), used to develop tools and methods to assess and quantify the nature, extent and severity of land degradation.

This has put greater pressure on the natural environment and increased the risks of land degradation.

In the northern Mediterranean, several countries have set up their own databases for monitoring land degradation.

The GEF addresses land degradation as a cross cutting issue in the other GEF focal areas.

at para. 21 see also Global Mechanism, Mobilizing Resources to Combat Land Degradation and Poverty (2000).

Global Mechanism website, Financial Information on Land Degradation Funders (2001), at http www.gm unccd.org FIELD Funds.htm.

Conversely, land degradation, desertification, pollution and unequal access to water and productive ecosystems diminished human well being.

The socio economic changes cited included rapid population growth, high food demand, and land and ecological degradation.

Four reports emphasize the involvement of local people in monitoring and assessing initiatives to combat land degradation.

Iraq contends that any degradation was caused by other factors, such as overgrazing and unsustainable land use.

Invites the Global Environment Facility to strengthen the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation

Global Mechanism of the UNCCD, Financial Information on Land Degradation Funders (2001), http www.gm unccd.org FIELD Funds.htm.

Most small island developing States face serious challenges of land degradation as a result, inter alia, of inappropriate land use and poor irrigation management systems.

4. Invites the Global Environment Facility to strengthen the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation

6. Invites the Global Environment Facility to strengthen the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation

In the UNEP s words, There is a very strong link between land degradation, desertification, and conflict in Darfur.

Poverty must be estimated as the result of a group of causes, of which land degradation is one.

The overarching topic is Poverty and land degradation and it is suggested that the following proposals be included

Coordination of ongoing projects relating to land degradation assessment and rehabilitation, with integrated ecosystem managements should take place.

Land degradation assessment projects are currently being implemented or pending in the NAPs and subregional action programmes (SRAPs).

Cooperation between the secretariat and the scientific community in Germany has involved universities and specific institutes that work on desertification control, land degradation and sustainable land management.

Soil erosion, waterlogging and salinity, predicted to increase with the onset of climate change, all contribute to land degradation and desertification, leading to overexploitation of the land.

Land degradation is in turn defined as the reduction or loss of the biological or economic productivity of drylands.

(c) A proposal on poverty and land degradation was prepared in June 2003 and was delivered at COP 6.

The participants from west Africa will develop capacities to reflect more critically on land degradation and rural livelihood issues.

Background The Desertification Convention Desertification is the degradation of land in arid, semi arid, and dry sub humid areas.

Invites the Global Environment Facility to strengthen the focal area of land degradation, primarily desertification and deforestation, and calls upon Global Environment Facility donors to increase substantially the level of resources to be allocated to the land degradation focal area during the fourth replenishment of the Facility

Resolves to support and strengthen the implementation of the Convention to address causes of desertification and land degradation, as well as poverty resulting from land degradation, through, inter alia, the mobilization of adequate and predictable financial resources, the transfer of technology and capacity building at all levels

It is not possible in practice to develop a single methodology to measure the relationship between land degradation and poverty.

The topic was presented to the GoE as one of two contributions within the theme of poverty and land degradation.

They are keen to mobilize expertise available in universities, research institutes and institutions specializing in monitoring and assessing land degradation.