[IISD] The Committee for the Review of the Implementation of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD CRIC) highlighted the need to genuinely include women and Indigenous and local communities in efforts to counter desertification, land degradation and drought (DLDD). Along with sessions on land tenure and land degradation neutrality (LDN), these discussions revealed that “restoration efforts cannot succeed without securing land and resource rights, enabling direct access to finance, and embedding community governance into national implementation plans.”
