The Forest and Landscape Restoration strategy is an integrated approach targeting biodiversity conservation, watershed protection, timber production, climate change mitigation and livelihood enhancement at both site and landscape levels.
This handbook, prepared for a workshop on salt-affected soils in Ukraine, helps understand diagnostic methods, criteria, factors, scale and extent of soil salinity. It provides methods for monitoring saline and alkaline soils, such as aerial photography and GIS mapping.
The report notes that there are currently 28 Food Chain Crisis (FCC) threats occurring in Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe, among which African swine fever, Fall armyworm and Avian influenza.
