{"id":11126,"date":"2023-05-21T01:53:50","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T20:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=11126"},"modified":"2025-03-30T00:42:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T19:12:03","slug":"centre-of-excellence-on-sustainable-land-management-coe-slm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/centre-of-excellence-on-sustainable-land-management-coe-slm\/","title":{"rendered":"Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Land Management (CoE- SLM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Background:<\/strong> The establishment of the CoE-SLM was <strong>announced by the Prime Minister<\/strong> of India during the <strong>14th Conference of the Parties (COP-14) of <\/strong>the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification<strong> (UNCCD) <\/strong>in September,<strong> 2019<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aims:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>To set <strong>Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) targets,<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Develop <strong>drought risk and early warning systems<\/strong>,<\/li>\n<li>Mainstream gender considerations,<\/li>\n<li>Promote <strong>good governance of land tenure and rights,<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Assess the impacts of <strong>land degradation on greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>To facilitate the restoration of degraded land through technical support, capacity building, and knowledge sharing at the national and sub-national levels.<\/li>\n<li>To promote South-South Cooperation and address land degradation issues through sustainable land management practices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objectives:<\/strong> The CoE-SLM has set forth specific objectives to guide its actions:\n<ul>\n<li>Assessing land degradation,<\/li>\n<li><strong>Capacity building<\/strong> on sustainable land management frameworks <strong>aligned with SDGs,<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Strengthening the assessment, monitoring, and reporting of <strong>land-based indicators outlined by the UNCCD.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are the functions of land management?<\/h3>\n<p>maintain and enhance production (productivity) reduce the level of production risk, and enhance soil capacity to buffer against degradation processes (stability\/resilience) protect the potential of natural resources and prevent degradation of soil and water quality (protection) be economically viable (viability)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1925988\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Shri Bhupender Yadav Inaugurates Centre of Excellence on Sustainable Land Management at Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education in Dehradun<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strengthening the assessment, monitoring, and reporting of land-based indicators outlined by the UNCCD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}