Feeding people, protecting the planet – FAO and the GEF: partners in action
he booklet highlights success stories from FAO’s work with the GEF over the past two decades in addressing the critical nexus between agriculture and the environment.
ENABLING THE USE OF GLOBAL DATA SOURCES TO ASSESS AND MONITOR LAND DEGRADATION AT MULTIPLE SCALES
The Land Degradation Monitoring Project is a Global Environment Facility (GEF)-funded project that provides guidance on robust methods and a toolbox for assessing, monitoring status, and estimating trends in land degradation using remote sensing technology.
Land Degradation Neutrality at the GEF
The GEF has quickly responded to decisions of UNCCD COP12 in Ankara (2015) and started to support Land Degradation Neutrality target setting and implementation through several projects in GEF-6, which are summarized in this brochure.
Tackling the Drivers of Global Environmental Degradation through the Integrated Approach Pilot Programs – Progress Report May – November 2017
The Food Security IAP program is focused specifically on promoting sustainability and resilience through management of the natural resources – land, water, soils, trees and genetic resources – that underpin food and nutrition security.
The GEF Food Security Program
Climate change will further exacerbate the risks facing agriculture in Africa, which is dominated by small farms with few assets and limited capacities to adapt.
New equipment to help farmers in sustainable land management
Efforts to combat land degradation in five Central Asian countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have received a new impetus with the establishment of a platform to consolidate knowledge and promote sustainable land management approaches and technologies that have been devised by researchers as well as farmers. Among these practices are zero and …
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Transforming Land Management Globally
The GEF Land Degradation Focal Area provides the framework for eligible countries1 to utilize GEF resources for implementing the UNCCD. Through the focal area, the GEF provides incremental financing for countries to invest in sustainable land management (SLM) activities that generate multiple environmental and development benefits.
Sustainable Land Management Financing in the GEF: A primer for the sixth GEF replenishment phase (GEF-6)
The Land Degradation Focal Area is the GEF window for investing in sustainable land management to improve or restore ecosystem services in production systems.
CACILM: Achieving Ecosystem Stability on the Exposed Aral Seabed and the Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan – under CACILM Partnership Framework, Phase 1
The project development goal is to achieve ecosystem stability on the exposed Aral seabed and the Kyzylkum Desert, in Uzbekistan. It will achieve this by supporting fully and directly the objective of GEF OP#15 namely, to mitigate the causes and negative impacts of land degradation on the structure and functional integrity of ecosystems through sustainable …