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Meeting with the Practice Manager for Environment and Social Development for Europe and Central Asia of the World Bank

On November 4, 2025, the Practice Manager for Environment and Social Development for Europe and Central Asia of the World Bank, Ms Gayane Minasyan, met with the team of the Uzbekistan Resilient Landscape Restoration Project (RESILAND Uzbekistan). The meeting took place at the World Bank office in Uzbekistan. The meeting

UNCCD launches first ever Soil Data Portal for 126 countries

Every year, tens of millions of hectares of productive land are lost to degradation worldwide . According to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), between 2015 and 2019, annual global land loss was at least 100 million hectares, which is equivalent to twice the area of Greenland. To make this data widely