Land Degradation Neutrality in Small Island Developing States: Technical Report

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are continuously under the threat from the adverse effects of climate change and land degradation impacts. Land degradation directly increases CO2 emissions, contributing to climate change and vice versa. The LDN Target Setting Programme (TSP) of the UNCCD has substantially contributed to land degradation receiving the policy attention and securing political commitments for addressing the obvious and immediate threats of climate change and natural disasters to SIDS. It has strengthened the availability and accessibility of data for assessing land degradation and enabled SIDS to set specific measurable science-based targets. LDN provides the framework for the sustainable development of human settlements in SIDS through policy, planning, design and regulatory instruments.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• Release date: Jun 30, 2020
• ISBN: 9789251325506

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Land Degradation Neutrality in Small Island Developing States.

Published by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with other contributing organisations.

Lead authors: Yasmeen Telwala (Global Mechanism of the UNCCD) and Arvind Dookhun (SIDS-LDN consultant)

Contributing authors: Christiana Oragbade (Global Mechanism of the UNCCD), Sven Walter (FAO), Pedro Lara Almuedo (Global Mechanism of the UNCCD), Sandrine Jauffret (Global Mechanism of the UNCCD)

Contributing organizations: Global Mechanism of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Indian Ocean Commission (IOC), The Partnership Initiative on Sustainable Land Management (PISLM), and The Pacific Community (SPC).

Suggested citation: UNCCD and FAO. 2020. Land Degradation Neutrality in Small Island Developing States. Technical report. Bonn, Germany.

This publication was made possible with the financial support of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) through the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN); the Changwon Initiative of the Government of the Republic of Korea; and the Ankara Initiative of the Government of the Republic of Turkey.

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