Why a Community of Knowledge on land degradation and desertification (LDD)?

Degradation and desertification are becoming one of the major issues of large areas of land, affecting the capacity of the land to offer ecosystem services.

There is a need to know and act to reverse land degradation and desertification (LDD)  and promote the expansion of innovative and tailored solutions. Exchange of knowledge and experiences and out-scaling of success stories is a way to foster the assessment and mitigation of LDD and innovations for sustainable land management and to promote a more effective integration of this issues in territorial agendas for improved land use, governance, and the creation of sustainable policy environments that address LDD. This includes sharing information relevant to policymakers, facilitating the exchange of local knowledge, and disseminating information among land users and their organizations.

The Monalisa project “Community of Knowledge” under construction, in synergy with the Community of Practice by sister project Terrasafe,  is an opportunity to create a space for sharing and discussing on desertification in Europe and the Mediterranean, by involvement of relevant institutions and the main scientific stakeholders, to support the project results scaling out and exploitation, especially at the Mediterranean and European level.