Sustainable Land Management for Global Benefits: UNU for LADA FAO, Rome 28 November - 1 December 2006.

Sustainable Land Management for Global Benefits:UNU for LADA

FAO, Rome

28 November - 1 December 2006

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UNU Architecture

• UNU Council• Rector

• UNU Centre• RTC/Ps• Networks• Associated Institutions• International Operating Units• Cooperating and Other Institutions

• Regional Centres of Expertise (EfSD)

• Rector’s Office• Academic Activities • (P&G, ESD, Capacity Development)• Academic Services• (Library, C3, UNU-Press, Media Studio)• Administration

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Environment

Development

Science & Technology and Society

Peace & Governance

Health

Human Security/ Human Rights UNU-

EHS

UNU-ESD

UNU-INRA

UNU-INWEH

UNU-BIOLAC

UNU-IIGH

UNU-FNP

UNU-P&G

UNU-CRIS

UNU-FTP

UNU-GTP

UNU-IIST

UNU-WIDER

UNU-MERIT

UNU-IAS

Icelandic ProgrammesThe focus of our work is not in each of these topics in themselves, but rather in the inter-linkages: the themes which relate two or more of the core themes.

STRUCTURE

UNU Hexagon: Advancing Knowledge for Human Security, Peace and Development

UNU-ILI

New RTC/P

Renewed RTC/P

Since 1996

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Core Networks

1. UNU-FNP Food and Nutrition Programme for Human and Social Welfare

2. SUMAMAD: Sustainable (Land) Management for Marginal Drylands CWANA+

3. Peace and Reconciliation

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UNU – Associated Institutions

1. UNU-CFTRI, Mysore, India2. UNU-Grid Arendal, Norway3. UNU-GFMC, Freiburg, Germany4. UNU-GIST, Gwangju, Korea5. UNU-GU, Brisbane, Australia6. UNU-ITC, Enschede, The

Netherlands7. UNU-NFTRI, Tsukuba, Japan8. UNU-UFMT, Cuiaba, Brazil9. UNU-UU, Ulster, Ireland10. UNU-UM, Madras, India

11. UNU-AIT, Bangkok, Thailand

12. UNU-Tufts, Boston, U.S.A.

13. UNU-Cornell, Ithaca, U.S.A.

14. UNU-Bonn, Germany

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+ RCEs

RCE Pacific

RCE TorontoRCE Barcelona

RCE Greater Sendai

RCE Okayama

RCE Rhine Meuse

RCE Penang

RCE Jordan

RCE Tongyeong

Water Virtual Learning Centre

REDMESOBiological Conservation

+ Online Learning Projects

Global Virtual University

Asia Pacific Initiative

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UNU’s Interventions at Global Biodiversity Hot-spots:

PLEC, Pamir, SLMMR, and Balkan

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•Mountains•China; Guinea; Jamaica;•Mexico; Tanzania;•Papua New Guinea; •Thailand; Uganda.

•Wetlands•Brazil•Peru

•Forest margins•Ghana•Kenya

•Semi-arid areas•Ghana•Guinea

PLEC brought together the best of scientists and farmers across the world to

Identify the expert farmers and their good practices, and extend these good practices through the expert farmers-teaching-others model.

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Current UNU/GEF Projects under OP15: SLM

• Global projects– Knowledge from the Land: Building a Community of Practice for the Land Degradation

Focal Area; Global, UNU-INWEH/UNDP– Training on Local level assessment for Land Degradation Assessment in Dryland -

LADA, (Global: Argentina, China, Cuba, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia), UNEP/FAO • Regional projects

– Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains - an Integrated and Trans-boundary Initiative in Central Asia (Tajikstan, Kyrgyzstan), UNU/UNEP

– Sustainable Land Management in Mountainous Regions (SLMMR) (Thailand, Lao PDR and China-Yunnan Province), UNU/UNEP

– Community Based Rehabilitation of Degraded Land in Balkan Countries (Balkan Region: Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey), UNU/UNEP

• National projects– Project development and backstopping for Sustainable Land Management for Mitigating

Land Degradation, Enhancing Agricultural Biodiversity and Reducing Poverty, (Ghana), University of Ghana, PLEC-Ghana/UNDP