Transcript Land Degradation - Global Environment Facility

Focal Area and Cross Cutting
Strategies – Land Degradation
GEF Expanded Constituency Workshop
October 11 – 13, 2011
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Land Degradation
Focal Area Strategy
(Combating Desertification and Deforestation)
GEF-5 Priorities
• Expand LD portfolio - 144 eligible countries through
inclusion of LD into STAR
• Address three main drivers of ecosystem degradation:
• land use change
• un-sustainable natural resources management and
consumption, and
• climate change.
• Improve the enabling framework
• Support to UNCCD (implementation of 10-year
strategy)
• Increase focus on production systems - agriculture
rangelands, and forest landscapes
Land Degradation Objective 1
Objective 1: Maintain or improve flows of agroecosystem services to sustain livelihoods of local
communities.
• Enhanced enabling environment within the agricultural sector
• Improved agriculture management and sustainable flow of
services in agro-ecosystems
• Increased investments in SLM
Land Degradation Objective 2
Objective 2: Generate sustainable flows of
forest ecosystem services in arid, semi-arid and
sub-humid zones, including sustaining
livelihoods of forest-dependent people
• Enhanced enabling environment within the forest
sector in drylands dominated countries
• Improved forest management and sustained flows of
forest ecosystem services in drylands
• Increased investments in SFM in dryland forest
ecosystems
Land Degradation Objective 3
Objective 3: Reduce pressures on natural
resources from competing land uses in the
wider landscape
• Enhanced cross-sector enabling environment for integrated
landscape management
• Integrated landscape management practices adopted by
local communities
• Increased investments in integrated landscape management
Land Degradation Objective 4
Objective 4: Increase capacity to apply adaptive management
tools in SLM
• Results-monitoring of UNCCD action programs
• Mainstreaming synergies and best practices for Natural Resource
Management
• Development of guidelines and tools for assessing ecosystem stability,
resilience and maintenance of regulating services
Global Environmental Benefits
• Improved provision of agro-ecosystem and forest ecosystem
goods and services.
• Reduced GHG emissions from agriculture, deforestation and
forest degradation and increased carbon sequestration.
• Reduced vulnerability of agro-ecosystem and forest ecosystems
to climate change and other human-induced impacts.
National Socio-economic Benefits
• Sustained livelihoods for people
dependent on the use and management
of natural resources (land, water, and
biodiversity).
• Reduced vulnerability to impacts of CC of
people dependent on the use and
management of natural resources in
agricultural and forest ecosystems.
Millennium
Development
Goals
Questions?
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