Drylands Monitoring Week
19/01/2015 - 23/01/2015
Rome, FAO
FAO and partners World Resources Institute and IUCN, with funding support from GEF and EU-ACP, held back to back workshops on dryland monitoring and assessment for sustainable management and livelihoods.
Workshop 1: Monitoring and Assessment of Drylands: Forests, Rangelands, Trees and Agrosilvopastroal Systems
Organized by FAO and World Resources Institute with support from EU-ACP | 19-21 January
Workshop objectives
- Assess the gap between the need and the current state of drylands monitoring
- Explore the opportunities offered by new technology and policy commitment
- Initiate a collaborative process to promote large-scale, comprehensive monitoring of drylands
Workshop 2: Participatory assessment of land degradation and sustainable land management in grassland and pastoral systems
A project inception workshop, organized by FAO and IUCN with GEF support | 21-23 January
GEF has recently approved the global project Participatory assessment of land degradation and sustainable land management in grassland and pastoral areas for which FAO will be the implementing agency.
Workshop objectives
- Introduce the project
- Agree on work plan and recommendations to be considered in the project design
- Establish partnerships providing support during the project preparation period
Presentations
- Agenda (English)
Workshop 1
- List of participants (English)
Session 1
- Drylands monitoring typology - Ethiopia group
- Drylands monitoring typology - Lebanon group
- Drylands monitoring typology - Ethiopia & Lebanon integrated
- Drylands degradation: what whould we monitor and how?
- Monitoring in drylands: Light at the end of the tunnel or is that a locomotive?
- What we need to know and why?
Session 2
- Rangelands and grasslands monitoring systems
- Tools and methods for the assessment of land degradation and sustainable land management
- Enhancing resilience in African drylands: toward a shared development agenda
- AQUASTAT FAO’s global water information system
- Ecosystem services in drylands: a livestock perspective
- People and animals
- Where we are: existing methods and lessons learned. Trees and forests
- Governance (methods and lessons)
Session 3
Session 4
- Aerial assessment of the Great Green Wall for the Sahara
- FAO Land Cover Mapping methodology, tools and standards & GLC–SHARE database
- Collect Earth - Multi-purpose land monitoring
- 3D mapping in drylands monitoring
- Satellite images technologies, new data streams
- Mapping conservation practices and tree cover in the Sahel
- Socio-economic data for drylands monitoring the living standards measurement study – Integrated surveys on agriculture
Session 5
- Monitoring land use and land cover change in West Africa and Chad (LULC)
- Decision support for mainstreaming and scaling up of sustainable land management DS-SLM project
- Combining local surveillance and spatial observation for environmental monitoring in the Circum-Sahara - The OSS experience
- State of Mediterranean Forests 2013
- GEF project: adaptive management and monitoring of the Maghreb’s oases systems
- State of the World’s Forests 2014: Improving the monitoring of socioeconomic benefits from forests
- Toolkit of planning, monitoring and evaluation of adaptive capacity to climate change (ToP-MECAC) - What contribution to the operational monitoring and assessment of drylands?
- Monitoring for assessment and reporting case study of the Gambia’s National Forest Assessment (2008-2010)
- Promoting appropriate livestock-based livelihoods responses: the Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS)
- Modeling risk on planted forests in South Africa
- Self-evaluation and Holistic Assessment of climate Resilience of farmers and Pastoralists (SHARP)
- Management and investment needs (Group Lebanon)
- What we want to know? (Group Lebanon 2)
- Land restoration in the Sahel, Burkina Faso
- The pastoralist knowledge hub
- The FAO monitoring and reporting tool for forest and landscape restoration
- TIST Planting trees and improving agriculture for better lives
Session 6
- Road Map: Key actions towards the implementation of the Rome promise on monitoring and assessment of drylands for sustainable management and restoration
- How to move forward: collaborating in drylands monitoring
- Take away messages from day 1
- Take away from day 2
Workshop 2
Session 1
- Participatory assessment of land degradation and sustainable land management in grassland and pastoral systems
- Multifunctionality of rangelands
Session 2
Session 3
- Self-evaluation and Holistic Assessment of climate Resilience of farmers and Pastoralists (SHARP)
- The resilience assessment framework: an approach to assessing agro-ecosystem resilience
- Overview of approaches for rangeland assessment and monitoring
- Trade-offs and synergies between grazing intensity and ecosystem services in rangelands
- Participatory assessment of land degradation and sustainable land management in grassland and pastoral systems. Baseline
Session 5
- Promoting alliances and raising political attention for improving the livelihoods of mountain pastoralists
- The Pastoralist Knowledge Hub - Enhancing pastoralists’ capacity to influence policy
Session 7
Session 8
Session 9
Session 10