Encouraging environmentally sound land use practices

Description

Encouraging environmentally sound land use practices involves promoting and implementing methods that protect natural resources, prevent land degradation, and support sustainable development. This strategy focuses on guiding land management decisions to minimize environmental harm, restore damaged ecosystems, and ensure long-term productivity. Key actions include enforcing regulations, providing incentives for sustainable agriculture and forestry, supporting land rehabilitation, and raising awareness among stakeholders to remedy issues such as soil erosion, habitat loss, and pollution.

Implementation

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.