This course focuses on Sustainable Land Management (SLM) practices, and their place within the global development agenda, specifically in order to achieve target 15.3 of the Sustainable Develo-pment Goals (SDGs), which aims "to achieve a land degradation-neutral world". The course assists policy makers, practitioners and land users in the selection, planning, implementation and monitoring of SLM interventions, and related enabling environment. The 2 hours long course was developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in partnership with the CIHEAM - Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari, Italy.

The subject matter is being addressed from a technical perspective, but is written for the general public. Individuals who would especially benefit the most from taking the course include local or national policy makers, land and water management technicians, extension agents and agronomists, and farmers and land users.

You will learn about:

• Basic definitions and principles of land management, degradation and restoration

• The participatory SLM land use planning approach

• SLM tools and methods (WOCAT global network, the Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) initiative and their 6+1 approach)

• The use of financial and non-financial incentives for an enabling environment, to overcome barriers and encourage SLM adoption and uptake

• SLM in the context of the global policy agenda, specifically SDG goal 15

• The concept of Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN)