Description: Landscape Partnership Asia (LPA) is an evolving, multi-stakeholder platform that seeks to implement performance-based investments in restoring Asian drylands and drought-prone areas. Investments will mitigate the climate crisis, build agricultural and environmental resilience, and improve livelihoods through various people-centred solutions such as institutional capacity building, farmer-managed and assisted natural regeneration, and small-to-medium enterprise and value chain development.The Partnership will involve a variety of partners, ranging from public through private to civil society. The Partnership seeks the commitment of funding,implementing, technical and political partners to mobilize resources and capacity to turn large swathes of drylands and drought-prone areas into productive and resilient landscapes. The Partnership will build on scalable restoration successes and complement national efforts to expand and accelerate the achievement of targets.
Publication year
2021
Authors
Asian Forest Cooperation Organization; Center for International Forestry Research; Global EverGreening Alliance; World Agroforestry Centre
Language
English
Keywords
drylands, water scarcity, drought, asia, land degradation
