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Land degradation poses a serious threat to livelihoods and economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa. TerrAfrica is a partnership that aims to address land degradation by scaling up harmonized support for effective and efficient country-driven Sustainable Land Management (SLM) practices in Sub-Saharan African countries.
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TerrAfrica is a collective and inclusive partnership that builds on each partner's comparative advantage. Currently, TerrAfrica partners include African governments, NEPAD, regional and sub-regional organizations, the UNCCD Secretariat, the UNCCD Global Mechanism (GM), the World Bank, GEF, IFAD, FAO, UNDP, UNEP, AfDB as well as multilateral organizations including the European Commission, bilateral donors, civil society and scientific organizations including FARA and CGIAR centers.
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TerrAfrica partners are implementing a wide range of activities under the umbrella of a joint annual work program, itself a key tool for driving the coalition building and harmonization process critical to succeeding in TerrAfrica’s mission. Activities under the work program are organized around three mutually reinforcing Activity Lines – Coalition Building, Knowledge Management and Investments – which together aim to generate the coalitions, advocacy, ‘know-how’, policies and investment packages necessary for full and effective mainstreaming, up-scaling and financing of SLM.
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Earth Day 2009
As part of an Earth Day 2009 video podcast, John Pender, Senior Research Fellow at IFPRI (International Food Policy Research Institute), highlighted TerrAfrica’s work to up-scale sustainable land management as part of a discussion on how SLM can reduce the threats of climate change.
More information is available here.
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CSO Coordination Mechanism for
Sustainable Land Management
UNDP, through the work programme of the TerrAfrica Civil Society Organisations Special Advisory Group, held a consultative workshop with CSOs from Sub-Saharan Africa on the establishment of a civil society coordination mechanism for SLM from 23 to 25 March 2009 in Pretoria, South Africa.
More information is available on the UNCCD website.
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The World Day to Combat Desertification
The World Day to Combat Desertification is observed every year on 17 June. This year, the Day's theme is "Conserving land and water = Securing our common future".
More information is available here.
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