Sustainable land management in practice

This comprehensive report aims to inform readers about the state of research and pursues an ambitious goal: to help create a framework for investments related to sustainable land management (SLM) practices (or GDT in french). The report is composed of two sections. The first introduces the general principles of SLM and the important issues to be taken into account for scaling up good practice. The second section presents twelve groups of SLM technologies and an illustrated module on the different SLM approaches.

Table of content:

1. Guiding principles
   1. Introduction
   2. Principles for best SLM practices
   3. Adoption and decision support for upscaling best practices
   4. The way forward
2. Best SLM practices for Sub-Saharan Africa
   1. Overview of SLM practices
   2. SLM technology groups and case studies
   3. SLM approaches and case studies

This rapport take part of  TerrAfrica programme.

To read and download the file.

Référence : Liniger, H.P., R. Mekdaschi Studer, C. Hauert and M. Gurtner. 2011. Sustainable Land Management in Practice – Guidelines and Best Practices for Sub-Saharan Africa. TerrAfrica, World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT) and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)