Case studies

ELD project conducted 12 country case studies in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. These 12 carefully selected national case studies provide rich information about various local contexts of costs of land degradation, drivers of land degradation, and amenable strategies for sustainable land management. Moreover, focus group discussions were held in more than 40 rural communities in six case study countries to ground-truth the results of the ELD research on land degradation mapping. These trans-disciplinary exchanges also enabled to gain intimate ground-level knowledge on challenges and opportunities for addressing land degradation in diverse contexts of developing countries.