List of locally applied and potential strategies from all study sites |
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Author: Gudrun Schwilch (Centre for Development and Environment CDE, University Bern, Switzerland)
Brief synthesis
Analysing the single workshop reports reveals that in almost all study sites it was possible to identify promising land conservation practices for further assessment and to establish a good basis for participative stakeholder cooperation. Such a first assessment of SLM measures conducted by local and external stakeholders gives already a clear understanding of the importance and benefit of the various measures. In 3 study sites the list was compiled by researchers only (Crete and Nestos Basin, Greece; Rendina Basin, Italy).
The table indicates that there is a high variety of measures represented. This variety is also reflecting the diversity of degradation and desertification problems prevalent in the study sites. Most of the identified measures are on cropland (66%), 16% are on grazing land and 5% on forest land. The rest is on a combination of two of these land use types. Limiting factors are often costs, education or technical constraints, whereas the perception of these limiting factors is mostly similar between local and external stakeholders. In many study sites it got clear that the land users need support from the government in one or the other way to combat land degradation and desertification, such as direct financial support or training. The similarity or agreement between local and external stakeholders applies also for the assessed potential of the identified measures in the local context.
More analysis on the first stakeholder workshop reports has been done in the synthesis report »Stakeholder Workshop 1: All study sites - analysis and synthesis.
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