Land Degradation As A Global Issue

Asynthesis of three studies commissioned by the Global Environment Facility to strengthen the knowledge base to support the Land Degradation Focal Area. The report presents a number of recommendations for advancing the relevance of land degradation investments by the GEF, and identifies priority topics in SLM for the GEF. Some of these topics are particularly suited to achieving global environmental benefits as incremental activities in development projects and in the work of other agencies such as the CGIAR. The report urges the GEF to accept that land degradation is one of the greatest threats to the integrity of ecosystems, and to continue to capitalize on its substantial institutional advantage in funding investments in cross-focal area linkages and in further developing integrated approaches that are fully inclusive of SLM.