Through its partnership with the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is investing in the legacy of our lands by helping countries and communities scale up sustainable agrifood system solutions to reduce and reverse land degradation ...

Nurturing Community of Knowledge Practice for Women in Dryland Forests and Agrosilvopastoral Systems (WeCaN) wrapped up a series of knowledge-sharing sessions on gender-responsive pasture management practices. The primary goals of the sessions were to emphasize the key role women play in leadi...

The GEF-7 Drylands Sustainable Landscapes Impact Program (DSL-IP) prioritizes gender-responsiveness and women's empowerment as an essential part of its programmatic support to the 11 country projects across Africa and Asia. The program focuses on boosting the resilience of dryland production syst...

The project “Promoting Dryland Sustainable Landscapes and Biodiversity Conservation in the Eastern Steppe of Mongolia” (“Eastern Steppe project”) is one of the 11 child projects under the GEF-7 Dryland Sustainable Landscapes Impact Program and led by FAO in partnership with WWF as GEF implementing agencies and country level, and executed by the Ministry of Environment and Tourism (MET) in collaboration with other partners.

Dr. Batkhuu Nyam-Osor is the current chair of the Committee on Forestry (COFO) Working Group (WG) on Dryland Forests and Agrosilvopastoral Systems (COFO WG), and was appointed in the third Session of the Working Group, celebrated in Jordan in 2023. He represents Mongolia in the COFO as advisor...

The rangelands of Central Asia are described as the largest contiguous area of grazed land in the world, serving as an important source of livelihood for pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in this region. These rangelands are also important in carbon regulation as they absorb CO2. 

The Side Event “Resilient Pastures for Land Degradation Neutrality in Central Asia” was held 
at the 21st Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the UNCCD (CRIC21) taking place from 13 to 17 November 2023 in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

The side event was co-organised by IUCN,...

Now in its third year of implementation, the GEF-7 Dryland Sustainable Landscapes Impact Program continues its journey, with activities ongoing in nine out of 11 countries and coordination structures in full swing.

The DSL-IP presented the One Country Champion, One Core Theme approach at the IYM Closing Ceremony! Read here to learn more about the event. 

The inaugural workshops of the Dryland Sustainable Landscapes Impact Programme (DSL-IP) were successfully held in the Chobe and Tutume sub-basins on 15 December 2023 and 18 January 2024, respectively. This programme is implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FA...

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.

In its mission to amplify the impact of its country-level interventions, the Dryland Sustainable Landscapes Impact Program (DSL-IP), a multi-country endeavor financed by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), has been working with Forest and Farm Producer Organizations (FFPOs) in Southern Africa to leverage on their existing social capital within the project’s landscapes to bridge sustainable land management, business plan development, and crop diversification at farm and landscape level.

In Zimbabwe, implementation of the Dryland Sustainable Landscapes Impact Program (DSL-IP) is under way aiming to halt and reverse negative trends of land and forest degradation, while enhancing climate resilience of degraded areas of Miombo and Mopane woodlands. A recent field visit took place in Runde and Save landscapes to monitor, assess, and review progress achieved, and come up with recommendations for project activities in Chimanimani, Chipinge, Zaka, Masvingo and Shurugwi. 

On 15 November, the GEF-7 Dryland Sustainable Landscapes Impact Program (DSL-IP) travelled to Samarkand, Uzbekistan to co-host a side event within the context of the twenty-first session of the Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the Convention (CRIC 21) to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).  

GEF-7 Dryland Sustainable Landscapes Impact Program (DSL-IP) launches the Regional Exchange Mechanism for Southern Africa through its first workshop.

Global stakeholders unite under the Drylands Sustainable Landscapes Impact Program to strategize sustainable dryland and forest management

Representatives of eight countries and partners contributing to the Drylands Sustainable Landscapes Impact Program (DSL-IP), Regional Cluster in Southern Africa will meet in Harare this week to accelerate the programme’s implementation at country level, develop skills and plan next steps of this major initiative supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF).

The first Summer School will take place in Amman, Jordan, in September 2023 in parallel with COFO Working Group’s Third Session. Deadline to apply is 11 June 2023. 

The Transforming Dryland Forests and Agrosilvopastoral Systems course was developed through the joint efforts and expertise of the COFO WG and 15 partners, the largest collaboration to date on any FAO Academy course.

Restoring ecosystems through sustainable forest and land management in Namibia: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism (MEFT) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Land Reform (MAWLR) hosted the inception workshop and official launch of the project called “Integrated landscape management to reduce, reverse and avoid further degradation and support the sustainable use of natural resources in the Mopane-Miombo belt of northern Namibia”.