Details for WP5.4 A methodological approach and modelling tool to evaluate desertification remediation options

This report presents a hybrid methodological framework that builds primarily upon the DESIRE project. To ensure that the approach is as widely applicable as possible beyond this original context, this report describes how the DESIRE methodological framework has been combined with approaches developed by UN Food & Agriculture Organisation’s Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands (LADA), the World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT) programme and the Dryland Development Paradigm (DDP). This was done as part of a process facilitated by the UNCCD’s Committee on Science & Technology and has informed discussion on knowledge management within the Convention. The framework suggests that monitoring and assessment should determine the progress of SLM towards meeting sustainability goals, with results continually and iteratively enhancing SLM decisions. (Report 97 D5.4.2 May12)