Sustainable Land Management and Restoration

This course focuses on Sustainable Land Management (SLM) practices, and their place within the global development agenda, specifically in order to achieve target 15.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aims "to achieve a land degradation-neutral world". The course assists policy makers, practitioners and land users in the selection, planning, implementation and monitoring of SLM interventions, and related enabling environment.

You will learn about

• Basic definitions and principles of land management, degradation and restoration
• The participatory SLM land use planning approach
• SLM tools and methods (WOCAT global network, the Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) initiative and their 6+1 approach)
• The use of financial and non-financial incentives for an enabling environment, to overcome barriers and encourage SLM adoption and uptake
• SLM in the context of the global policy agenda, specifically SDG goal 15
• The concept of Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN)