Land degradation assessment in drylands (LADA)

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Land degradation assessment in drylands (LADA)
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What is LADA?

• Land Degradation
• Assessment in
• Dryland
• Areas

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LADA PARTNERSHIP
At national and regional levels National CCD
focal institutions, land and water divisions,
Regional bodies of UNCCD, CST, TPNs At
International level
The LADA Secretariat is hosted by FAO and can be
contacted at LADA Secretariat, AGLL Food and
Agriculture Organization of the United Nations ,
FAO , Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100 Rome,
Italy Fax[phone] Phone[phone] E-ma
il http//LADA.virtualcentre.org
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OBJECTIVES OF LADA

• Develop and test an effective assessment
  methodological framework for land degradation in
  dry lands
• Build national, regional and global assessment
  capacities for land degradation assessment and
  monitoring to assist in the design, planning and
  monitoring of interventions to mitigate land
  degradation and establish sustainable land use
  and management practices
• 3. Assess (quantitative, qualitative and
  georeferenced) land degradation at global,
  national and sub-national levels to

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LADA OBJECTIVES (ctnd)

• 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 on going land degradation of
  such areas and areas under risks of degradation,
  drought or floods,
• 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),

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THE LADA APPROACH

• LADA follows a participatory, decentralised,
  country-driven and integrated approach and makes
  ample use of participatory rural appraisals,
  expert assessment, field measurements, remote
  sensing, GIS, modelling and other modern means of
  data generation, networking and communication
  technologies for share of information at
  national and international levels.
• Key elements of the approach are
• Participation and inclusion of different
  perception of LD
• Combination of expert assessment local
  knowledge
• Use adapted assessment tools for specific
  environments

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How to measure Changes
Time
Biomass
S.O.M. Productivity
Land use change
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How to measure complexity

RESPONSES
DRIVING FORCES
IMPACTS
PRESSURES
STATE
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INDICATORS DEVELOPMENT
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LADA Steps LADA Outputs
Perception of Impacts and Economic Ecological
costs
Identification of Land Degradation Problems and
Users Needs Assessment
Institution Building
Establishment of a LADA Task Force
Knowledge Base Gap Analysis
Stocktaking Preliminary Analysis
Criteria and Indicators
Stratification and Sampling Strategy
Cost/Benefit Analysis
Field Surveys Participatory Assessment
Decision Support Tools
Information Integration
Web Site / Reports / Maps
Monitoring Strategies Tools
New Land Use Policies Practices
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Case Study - Argentina
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• WHY IS LADA IMPORTANT IN ARGENTINA?
• Argentina ranks ninth in the world for total
  amount of drylands is one of only 14 countries
  to have more than 1 million km2 of drylands (WRI
  2003)
• The dry subhumid, semiarid arid regions cover
  2/3 of Argentinas terrestrial territory
• The arid region occupies the largest area (51.5
  of the total land area)
• 30 of the population lives in drylands (9 M
  people).Among them 1/3 live on less than 1 US
  per day
• Livestock ranching is the primary means of
  livelihood, followed by dryland agriculture
• The country presents different levels of
  desertification, as shown in the map

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PRIORITIES
ACHIEVEMENTS

• Interesting development in the diagnosis of
  natural resources.
• Human and institutional capacity (large number of
  Institutions at different levels)
• Existence of NAP National Coordination Agency
• Diversity of geographic and social situations
• International Cooperation
• Plenty of Information.
• Number of projects on natural resources
• Many methodologies and technologies implemented
  at local and regional level.
• Involvement of different actors (NGOs/GOs)

• Lack of assessments at national level
• Lack of a socio-economic quantification.
• Extensive area and diversity of situations at
  regional and local level
• Data accessibility
• Lack of balance between volume of biophysiical
  information and economic data.
• Lack of examples and demonstrative cases of good
  and bad practices
• Lack of diffusion and use by private and public
  sectors

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THANK YOU VERY MUCH