CRIC23 Land degradation and Desertification risk monitoring and restoration assessment: Towards innovative science-based approaches

DesertNet International presents innovative, science-based approaches to monitor land degradation and desertification risks (LDD) and assess restoration efforts explored and proposed in the frame of the projects MONALISA and TERRASAFE, developed under the Horizon Europe Mission Soil program. The aim is to strengthen the science–policy interface and promote collaboration for effective implementation of the UNCCD objectives.

Keynote session: Land degradation and Desertification risk monitoring and restoration assessment – Towards innovative science-based approaches

Keynote speakers:

Daniela Smiraglia, ISPRA, Italy, MONALISA WP3 leader

“Knowledge, experiences, and gap analysis for LDD monitoring and assessment. How MONALISA is contributing to desertification monitoring systems?”

Lindsay Stringer, York University, UK, TERRASAFE

“Interrelations between socio-economic and biophysical factors for ecosystem restoration monitoring”

María Degania Medina, National Focal Point UNCCD, Spain

“Renaturalization of intensified agricultural landscapes in the Mar Menor area, Spain”

Jean-Luc Chotte, French Scientific Committee on Desertification

“Land degradation and desertification risks monitoring and restoration assessment progresses in France

Panel session: From Knowledge to Action — Scaling Up Science-Based Approaches for Land Degradation and Desertification Risk Monitoring and Restoration

Chair: Giovanna Seddaiu, DesertNet International General Secretary; MONALISA project coordinator

Panelists:

Pier Paolo Roggero, Univ. of Sassari, Italy. OUMED project

Mongi Ben Zaied, IRA, Tunisia. MONALISA project

Anna Luise, Italian Science and Technology Correspondent at UNCCD, ISPRA associate

Ahmed Ali Abdelati, Egypt Science and Technology Correspondent at UNCCD