Sustainable Land Management for Global Benefits: UNU for LADA FAO, Rome 28 November - 1 December 2006

2 UNU Architecture UNU Council Rector UNU Centre RTC/Ps Networks Associated Institutions International Operating Units Cooperating and Other Institutions Regional Centres of Expertise (EfSD) Rector’s Office Academic Activities (P&G, ESD, Capacity Development) Academic Services (Library, C3, UNU-Press, Media Studio) Administration

3 Environment Development Science & Technology and Society Peace & Governance Health Human Security/ Human Rights UNU-EHS UNU-ESD UNU-INRA UNU-INWEH UNU-BIOLACUNU-IIGH UNU-FNP UNU-P&G UNU-CRIS UNU-FTP UNU-GTP UNU-IIST UNU-WIDER UNU-MERIT UNU-IAS Icelandic Programmes The focus of our work is not in each of these topics in themselves, but rather in the inter-linkages: the themes which relate two or more of the core themes. STRUCTURE UNU Hexagon: Advancing Knowledge for Human Security, Peace and Development UNU-ILI New RTC/P Renewed RTC/P Since 1996

4 Core Networks 1.UNU-FNP Food and Nutrition Programme for Human and Social Welfare 2.SUMAMAD: Sustainable (Land) Management for Marginal Drylands  CWANA+ 3.Peace and Reconciliation

5 UNU – Associated Institutions 1.UNU-CFTRI, Mysore, India 2.UNU-Grid Arendal, Norway 3.UNU-GFMC, Freiburg, Germany 4.UNU-GIST, Gwangju, Korea 5.UNU-GU, Brisbane, Australia 6.UNU-ITC, Enschede, The Netherlands 7.UNU-NFTRI, Tsukuba, Japan 8.UNU-UFMT, Cuiaba, Brazil 9.UNU-UU, Ulster, Ireland 10.UNU-UM, Madras, India 11. UNU-AIT, Bangkok, Thailand 12. UNU-Tufts, Boston, U.S.A. 13. UNU-Cornell, Ithaca, U.S.A. 14. UNU-Bonn, Germany

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7 + RCEs RCE Pacific RCE Toronto RCE Barcelona RCE Greater Sendai RCE Okayama RCE Rhine Meuse RCE Penang RCE Jordan RCE Tongyeong Water Virtual Learning Centre REDMESO Biological Conservation + Online Learning Projects Global Virtual University Asia Pacific Initiative

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9 UNU’s Interventions at Global Biodiversity Hot-spots: PLEC, Pamir, SLMMR, and Balkan

10 Mountains China; Guinea; Jamaica; Mexico; Tanzania; Papua New Guinea; Thailand; Uganda. Wetlands Brazil Peru Forest margins Ghana Kenya Semi-arid areas Ghana Guinea PLEC brought together the best of scientists and farmers across the world to Identify the expert farmers and their good practices, and extend these good practices through the expert farmers-teaching-others model.

11 Current UNU/GEF Projects under OP15: SLM Global projects –Knowledge from the Land: Building a Community of Practice for the Land Degradation Focal Area; Global, UNU-INWEH/UNDP –Training on Local level assessment for Land Degradation Assessment in Dryland - LADA, (Global: Argentina, China, Cuba, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia), UNEP/FAO Regional projects –Sustainable Land Management in the High Pamir and Pamir-Alai Mountains - an Integrated and Trans-boundary Initiative in Central Asia (Tajikstan, Kyrgyzstan), UNU/UNEP –Sustainable Land Management in Mountainous Regions (SLMMR) (Thailand, Lao PDR and China-Yunnan Province), UNU/UNEP –Community Based Rehabilitation of Degraded Land in Balkan Countries (Balkan Region: Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey), UNU/UNEP National projects –Project development and backstopping for Sustainable Land Management for Mitigating Land Degradation, Enhancing Agricultural Biodiversity and Reducing Poverty, (Ghana), University of Ghana, PLEC-Ghana/UNDP