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 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 1 Objective 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 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

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