Focal Area and Cross Cutting Strategies – Land Degradation

GEF Expanded Constituency Workshop

July 19 – 21, 2011

Monrovia, Liberia

Land Degradation Focal Area Strategy

(Combating Desertification and Deforestation)

• 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

GEF-5 Priorities

Land Degradation Objective 1Objective 1: Maintain or improve flows of agro-ecosystem 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 2Objective 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 3Objective 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 4Objective 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.

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Goals

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