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Quito, April 14 (EFE).- The plan “Setting Land Degradation Neutrality (NDT) Targets and Restoring Degraded Landscapes in the Western Andes and Coastal Areas” presented by Ecuador aims to achieve environmental and socio-economic benefits and towards sustainable development promote in rural communities.
To this end, the aim is to create the conditions that facilitate the implementation of this initiative based on policy, applied research, capacity building, the creation of financing mechanisms and the generation of experience in this field, both in the mountains and on the coast. This was reported on Thursday by the Ecuadorian Ministry for the Environment, Water and Ecological Change, which is in charge of the project.
Funded by the Global Environment Fund (GEF), the program is implemented by the Consortium for the Sustainable Development of the Andean Ecoregion (CONDESAN) under the technical oversight of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). and the support of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock.
According to José Dávalos, Acting Deputy Minister for the Environment, this plan will “bring global ecological and socio-economic benefits by integrating concepts of neutrality, drought and land degradation into national policies and spatial planning”.
“To achieve land neutrality, NDT Ecuador aims to promote sustainable development in rural communities and ensure the delivery of ecosystem services and food sovereignty,” he said.
The intervention areas will be the forests, bogs and agricultural land of the central and northern mountains, as well as the dry and wet forests and agricultural mosaic of the coast, the ministry specified in a statement.
The initiative complements national efforts in this regard with four components: target setting and monitoring for LDN, the LDN approach to promoting resilient livelihoods, innovative incentives for sustainable land management, and project monitoring, evaluation and lessons learned.
FAO representative Agustín Zimmermann emphasized the importance of LDN “as a means of promoting a dual approach of measures that prevent or reduce land degradation”.
“Only in this way – he stressed – can neutrality be achieved and the direct and indirect effects of land degradation reduced.”
Setting targets for neutrality and restoration of degraded landscapes in the western Andes and coastal areas aims to prevent, reduce and reverse land degradation processes. EFE
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