UNCCD COP17 Side EventFrom EthnoCaatinga to Productive Forests: Territorial Solutions for Land Restoration, Women’s Leadership and Climate Resilience in Drylands25 August | 10:30 – 12:00 | MET-02
UNCCD COP17Vital Voices at UNCCD COP17, Mongolia25 August | 10:30 – 12:00 | MET-07
UNCCD COP17 Side EventBridging Economic Viability, Sustainability, and Food Security through Farmer-Led Land Stewardship24 August | 10:30 – 12:00 | MET-07 Background While global climate and land conventions like the UNCCD set agendas, farmer organizations often arrive at these international tables with fragmented messaging, regionally distinct language, culture, context and competing priorities. To maximize the […]
Healthy Rangelands, Flowing Rivers: a Nature-Based Solution to Water Security in Central Asia22 August | 8:30 – 10:00 (AST GMT+3) | MET-02
UNCCD COP17 From Rangelands to Mountain Landscapes: Community-Led Restoration Across Asia Date: 21 August 2026Time: 18:00–19:30Venue: MET-04Organized by the Rural Development Fund, Kyrgyzstan, Host Organization of the ILC Asia Ecosystems Restoration Platform. Across Asia, Indigenous Peoples, local communities, pastoralists, and smallholder family farmers are restoring degraded ecosystems through community-led governance, traditional ecological knowledge, sustainable pastoralisms, agroecology, participatory mapping, and […]
UNCCD COP17Grounding the Rio Conventions: Sustainable Land Management as a Pathway to Methane Mitigation21 August | 13:00 – 14:00 | TNC PavillionOrganised by Ambition Loop Event overview Rangeland grazing systems can account for up to 70% of rangeland farms’ methane emissions, but data on different production systems, particularly mobile pastoralism, remains limited. This gap points […]
UNCCD COP17 Side EventCo-management of Rangelands and Conservation of Territories of life by local communities: IYRP processes and challenges20 August | 16:30 -18:00 | Room 170 Green Zone Background The International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists 2026 was and continuing as important processes to influence the global narrative of pastoralism and rangelands conservation. It has […]
UNCCD COP17The Right to Movement: Measuring Pastoralist Land Tenure Security in Mongolia20 August | 16:30–18:30 | Blue Zone, Mongolia House Organizers: International Land Coalition (ILC), General Authority for LandAdministration, Geodesy and Cartography (GALAGC), Implementing Agencyof the Government of Mongolia; National Land Coalition of Mongolia (MLMA,MNFPUG, Center for Policy Research, JASIL, NAMAC); with support fromFAO, the Huairou […]
