Service 2:
Land Degradation Monitoring and Assessment
Context of implementation
North African sub-region is characterised by high rainfall variability and recurrent periods of severe drought. The countries are facing land degradation issues, which threaten people livelihood and food security while reducing ecosystem services and natural resources sustainability. Monitoring land degradation issues spatially and assessing effectiveness of restoration impact is of crucial importance and a major step towards achieving land degradation neutrality. This service is currently the most operational and exhaustive one providing geo-services in whole North-Africa region regarding SDG 15.3.1 indication monitoring.
Objective
The objective of this service is to ensure suitable monitoring and assessment of land degradation issues by providing:
- Multi-scale spatial indicators on land degradation.
- Operational geo-services for monitoring land degradation/restauration hotspots.
- Capacity building and mastering calculation of LDN indicator.
- Characterisation and analysis of land degradation hotspots.
- Online system for information and data on degradation information.
Results and outputs
This service provides proper information on land degradation through:
- Regular provision of geospatial resources for assessing land degradation.
- Periodic report on SDG 15.3.1 indicator, taking into consideration new UNCCD best practices guidelines.
- Forest fires monitoring and burn scars quantification.
- Hotspots on vegetation loss and gain.
- Desertification vulnerability assessment.
- Assessment of forest carbon emissions and forest risk assessment
- Assessment for coastal erosion hotspots
- Land susceptibility to wind and water erosion