Achieving Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) at landscape level is possible, but also very challenging, especially with scarce or non-existing data for making well-informed decisions. To tackle this, the Drylands Sustainable Landscapes Impact Program (DSL-IP), a multi-country endeavor supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), has developed its Integrated Landscape Assessment Methodology (ILAM), aimed to strengthening the LDN process through ensuring data from multiple sources and levels is seamlessly integrated to generate meaningful and evidence-based information.

This article explains the aim of the impact program in paving the way to more targeted and context-specific interventions in Southern Africa.