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The LADA project concerns the development and widespread
application of methodologies to assess the driving forces and quantify the
nature, extent, severity, impacts and root causes of land degradation,
particularly in drylands.
The principal objectives of the LADA project are to:
Develop and implement strategies, tools and methods to assess
and quantify the nature, extent and severity of land degradation and the overall
ecosystem resilience of dryland ecosystems at a range of spatial and temporal
scales. The assessment will integrate biophysical factors and socioeconomic
driving forces
Build national, regional and global assessment capacities to
enable the design and planning of interventions to mitigate land degradation and
establish sustainable land use and management practices. These objectives are
expected to overcome current policy and institutional barriers to sustainable
land use in dryland zones and establish incentives to promote the accrual of
global biodiversity benefits at national and local levels
Assess (quantitative, qualitative and georeferenced) land
degradation at global, national and sub-national levels to:
Identify the status, driving forces and impacts, as well as
trends of land degradation in drylands in all its components including physical
resources (such as soils, water, vegetation, biodiversity) and human resources
(livelihood systems, cultural societies)
Identify and characterize the hotspots: the areas with
greatest land constraints, high risks or high level of ongoing land degradation
of such areas and areas under risks of degradation, drought or floods, and
to
Identify and characterize the bright spots: the areas where
the degradation has been slowed or reversed through conducive policies and
actions (area of success & priority area for most cost-effective
rehabilitation of fragile lands)
