1st Online Support Session launches

The first Online Support Session has been officially launched in March 2024. This is part of what the GEO-LDN Flagship offers to carry on and over the momentum of our successful Global Dialogue Forum (GDF) 2023 in Cape Town of South Africa. 14 intersectoral country teams gathered to present their u…

GEO-LDN Principals’ Meeting 2024

GEO-LDN Principals´Meeting 2024: Celebrate the progress and co-create the way forward

On 11 and 12 March 2023, the principals of the GEO-LDN Flagship (representing the Leadership, Steering Committee, and Secretariat) met in Bonn to review the status as well as outline the next steps for t…

GEO-LDN at ESA Symposium in March 2024

The ESA Symposium on Earth Observation for Soil Protection and Restoration took place in Frascati, Italy from March 6 to 7. The two-day symposium brought together professionals and experts from across international organizations such as EEA, FAO, ISRIC, UNCCD, JRC, among many others, as well as res…

LDN Target Setting Program (TSP) 2.0 at Doha

The Global Training workshop on ‘Strengthening land restoration targets and commitments’ brought together stakeholders from each of the 18 countries chosen for the 2^nd round of the Target Setting Program (TSP 2.0) alongside experts from the UNCCD, UNCBD, FAO, UNDP and GIZ among many oth…

LDN Toolbox Training at RCMRD, Nairobi

From 2nd to 6th October 2023, GEO-LDN organised a training of trainers on the LDN Toolbox, partnering with the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD), Conservation International (CI) and WOCAT (the World Online Catalogue on Conservation Approaches and Technologies). P…

Postgraduate Programme on LDN at UENR

First International Postgraduate Programme on LDN launches at the University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR) in Sunyani, Ghana

Land is one of the foremost natural resources. Sustainable land management is a prerequisite to unlocking land value and spurring economic development. It is of u…

LDN Training prior to AfriGEO Symposium 2023

GEO-LDN hosted a 2-day training workshop on approaches for land degradation monitoring prior to AfriGEO Symposium 2023 in Swakopmund, Namibia. 31 AfriGEO delegates learnt about different tools and approaches in land degradation monitoring and planning towards degradation neutrality (LDN): SEPAL, tr…