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"Assessing the costs of land degradation for better promoting the UNCCD into programmatic and budgetary processes" was the subject of a joint side event held by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the GM on the fringes of CRIC 7. This joint initiative, outlined Mr Alejandro Kilpatrick, GM’s Programme Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean, aims to provide strong arguments for investing in sustainable land management (SLM) by clearly demonstrating the sizeable economic losses incurred due to declining agricultural productivity.
The initiative provides much needed impetus for addressing land degradation-related issues in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, given that a major hurdle in the region has been the low ranking of land degradation by LAC countries among their development priorities. By conducting a state-of-the-art economic assessment, the GM and ECLAC stressed that they are firmly committed to providing compelling evidence demonstrating the significant socio-economic costs of land degradation.
The methodology used for this assessment is based on a simple approach that is easily replicable and draws on the significant linkages with cross-cutting issues including climate change and migration which have far-reaching implications on countries. During the side event, country Parties expressed their strong interest in the methodology, whilst stressing the need to make the assessment easily applicable.
For more information:
Mr Alejandro Kilpatrick, Programme Coordinator, Latin America and the Caribbean
Tel. +39 06 5459 2524
a.kilpatrick (at) global-mechanism.org
Building compelling evidence on the socio-economic costs of land degradation in Latin America and the Caribbean: GM-ECLAC joint initiative
14 November, 2008
The initiative provides much needed impetus for addressing land degradation-related issues in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries, given that a major hurdle in the region has been the low ranking of land degradation by LAC countries among their development priorities. By conducting a state-of-the-art economic assessment, the GM and ECLAC stressed that they are firmly committed to providing compelling evidence demonstrating the significant socio-economic costs of land degradation.
The methodology used for this assessment is based on a simple approach that is easily replicable and draws on the significant linkages with cross-cutting issues including climate change and migration which have far-reaching implications on countries. During the side event, country Parties expressed their strong interest in the methodology, whilst stressing the need to make the assessment easily applicable.
For more information:
Mr Alejandro Kilpatrick, Programme Coordinator, Latin America and the Caribbean
Tel. +39 06 5459 2524
a.kilpatrick (at) global-mechanism.org
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