Climate & Environment
Sustainable Land Management (SLM)
Land use that maintains productivity, ecosystem services and livelihoods together — the UNCCD's core operational concept.
Definition
Sustainable land management is the use of land resources — soils, water, vegetation, animals — for the production of goods to meet changing human needs, while simultaneously ensuring the long-term productive potential of these resources and the maintenance of their environmental functions (the UN Earth Summit definition). It is the operational concept of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification, encompassing conservation agriculture, agroforestry, grazing management, water harvesting and erosion control, catalogued by the WOCAT global database of SLM practices.
Overview
The overview for this term is being prepared.
Review
Help keep this definition useful and accurate.
Submitted reviews stay private until an editor decides whether to accept and attribute them.
Contribute to this entry
How would you like to contribute?
Every endorsement and suggested edit is checked by an editor before anything changes publicly.