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  UNGA 2018

  UNGA 2018

  Opinion: Is the future worth investing in?

  28 Sep 2018

  The benefits of promoting sustainable land management and land use planning to make families and communities more resilient to climate change cannot be over-emphasized. Public finance will not suffice. However, good policy can motivate business to step into the world of sustainable land management.

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  #MDGMomentum

  #MDGMomentum

  Ambitious SDGs are empty without bold action on land

  12 Aug 2014

  Up to 13 of the 17 proposed Sustainable Development Goals are directly linked to the use of land. How can we "square the circle" on land tenure and restoration? Find out in this opinion by UNCCD Executive Director Monique Barbut for our #MDG500 campaign.

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  #FeedingDev

  #FeedingDev

  It's time for a global landscape restoration revolution

  22 Jul 2014

  What do we need to achieve large-scale transformation in restoring degraded land to productive use? Political will and putting our knowledge into action, the heads of the World Resources Institute and the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification write in an opinion for Feeding Development.

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  #FeedingDev

  #FeedingDev

  All you can eat — the global greed for land

  11 Jul 2014

  How do we feed 9 billion people by 2050? Start by recovering degraded farmland, writes Monique Barbut, executive secretary of the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification, in an exclusive guest commentary as part of our Feeding Development campaign.

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