Desertification Learning Hub

Our team has compiled a series of resources to provide you with a hub for finding out more about desertification and land degradation.

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Transforming Food Systems to Reverse Land Degradation and Combat Desertification

Transforming Food Systems to Reverse Land Degradation and Combat Desertification

Beyond the green: land productivity as a window into desertification

Beyond the green: land productivity as a window into desertification

Green walls and straw checkerboards: Global efforts towards reversing desertification

Green walls and straw checkerboards: Global efforts towards reversing desertification

Carob – a future-food that can grow in dryland areas

Carob – a future-food that can grow in dryland areas

Community visions of desertification resilience

Community visions of desertification resilience

Desertification and soil salinisation in Tunisia: why does it happen and what’s the solution?

Desertification and soil salinisation in Tunisia: why does it happen and what’s the solution?

National Report on Combatting Desertification in Cyprus

National Report on Combatting Desertification in Cyprus

Environment and climate assessment of Spain’s CAP Strategic Plan

Environment and climate assessment of Spain’s CAP Strategic Plan

Spain faces growing desertification

Spain faces growing desertification

Spain’s National Strategy to Combat Desertification 1st Implementation Plan 2025-2027

Spain’s National Strategy to Combat Desertification 1st Implementation Plan 2025-2027

Droughts, desertification, heatwaves: the climate crisis hits Sicily hard

Droughts, desertification, heatwaves: the climate crisis hits Sicily hard

Soil degradation processes in the EU

Soil degradation processes in the EU

Outlook on the knowledge gaps to reduce land degradation in Europe

Outlook on the knowledge gaps to reduce land degradation in Europe

Land degradation: factsheet

Land degradation: factsheet

The Role of Governance in Combatting Desertification

The Role of Governance in Combatting Desertification

EU policies: Water

EU policies: Water

EU policies: Climate

EU policies: Climate

EU-level agricultural policies

EU-level agricultural policies

EU policies: Biodiversity

EU policies: Biodiversity

Soil-related policies: EU level

Soil-related policies: EU level

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification

Installation of hedgerows in areas prone to desertification using drought adapted deep rooted plants

Installation of hedgerows in areas prone to desertification using drought adapted deep rooted plants

Restoration of degraded areas for flood risk mitigation

Restoration of degraded areas for flood risk mitigation

Zai technique for dryland rehabilitation

Zai technique for dryland rehabilitation

Innovations to tackle desertification

Innovations to tackle desertification

What is desertification and how can we prevent it?

What is desertification and how can we prevent it?

The Value of Land

The Value of Land

ELD Practitioner’s Guide: Pathways and Options for Action and Stakeholder Engagement

ELD Practitioner’s Guide: Pathways and Options for Action and Stakeholder Engagement

ELD User Guide: A 6+1 step approach to assess the economics of land management

ELD User Guide: A 6+1 step approach to assess the economics of land management

Economics of Drought Report

Economics of Drought Report

Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health report: 2025

Coalition of Action 4 Soil Health report: 2025

Romania’s agriculture sector devastated by drought and desertification

Romania’s agriculture sector devastated by drought and desertification

Uzbekistan: coming back from desertification

Uzbekistan: coming back from desertification

Land Degradation Neutrality for biodiversity conservation: How healthy land safeguards nature

Land Degradation Neutrality for biodiversity conservation: How healthy land safeguards nature

The increasing threat of desertification to Europe

The increasing threat of desertification to Europe

Protocol for design, implementation and maintenance of the NBS for drylands

Protocol for design, implementation and maintenance of the NBS for drylands

Assessment Report on Land Degradation and Restoration

Assessment Report on Land Degradation and Restoration

IPCC special report: Desertification

IPCC special report: Desertification

Strategies to reduce desertification: Geography revision

Strategies to reduce desertification: Geography revision

World Drought Atlas: Report

World Drought Atlas: Report

Science-policy brief: The global threat of drying lands: Regional and global aridity trends and future projections

Science-policy brief: The global threat of drying lands: Regional and global aridity trends and future projections

Science-policy brief: Sustainable land use systems – the path forward to collectively achieve Land Degradation Neutrality

Science-policy brief: Sustainable land use systems – the path forward to collectively achieve Land Degradation Neutrality

Desertification Atlas of Spain

Desertification Atlas of Spain

Combatting desertification in the EU: a growing threat in need of more action (2018)

Combatting desertification in the EU: a growing threat in need of more action (2018)

World Atlas of desertification

World Atlas of desertification

Desertification in the EU: Background paper

Desertification in the EU: Background paper

Using Remote Sensing to Restore Our Lands, From the Coastal Fringe to the Deep Desert

Using Remote Sensing to Restore Our Lands, From the Coastal Fringe to the Deep Desert

Desertification and Drought Day 2024: UNCCD’s Global Event

Desertification and Drought Day 2024: UNCCD’s Global Event

#HerLand: Women combat desertification

#HerLand: Women combat desertification

‘In Dust’ – An artist’s impression of desertification

‘In Dust’ – An artist’s impression of desertification

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