Community Approaches to Sustainable Land Management and Agroecology Practices

The publication features four themes. These themes reflect the key programming areas where communities and civil society organization have prioritized projects that meets their livelihoods needs and address global environment benefits. These themes and practices relates to agroecology and agribusiness, sustainable forest management, water and energy efficient technologies, management and rehabilitation of degraded pastoral lands. Up to 11 project examples are featured in the publication, each of which demonstrates and illustrates how communities can be effective vehicles of and land managers for reversing degraded lands by using simple technologies,  traditional knowledge and farm based inputs. Through these projects communities shown their abilities to protect, rehabilitate, conserve and manage land resources avoiding most of land degrading drivers.