“By harnessing synergies and linkages between components within production landscapes, SLM can generate multiple global environmental and livelihood benefits.”
A collaboration of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) secretariats, the Land for Life publication presents a set of case studies of sustainable land management (SLM) in practice to address land degradation. These examples stress the long-term outlook and potential for scaling up the use of an integrated approach to land, water, biodiversity, and environmental management. The publication also explores SLM as an entry point for climate-smart agriculture and how more sustainable management can be incorporated into agricultural intensification.
Jayanta Kumar Sarma
April 10, 2012 at 11:53amSuitable Land Management (SLM) is key issue of sustanable livelihood of the people. There are many communities who practices such concept on the basis of their Traditional Ecological Knowledge System (TEKS). Such practices nurture biodiversity, manage land, soil and water sutainably to ensure livelihood security. There are some practices Dong among Bodo community, Longsor among the Karbi Community, Land use zoning of Dimasa community and Singpho community of Assam, India have uniqueness in this context. Their practices reflects how cultural landscape evoloves over an ecological landscape on the basis of TEKS. There is need to give priority on such practices and promote the concept for ecological security of the planet and our future. From this perspectives it is very important initiatives.