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Land Day 3
The Nexus Between Biodiversity and Desertification, Land Degradation and Drought
Land Day 3 will be held on 23 October 2010, in Nagoya, Japan, in parallel with the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity(CBD COP 10) taking place from 18 to 29 October 2010. The issues under consideration at CBD COP10 are strongly related to those of desertification. Therefore, Land Day 3 offers the negotiators relevant, cutting-edge knowledge for direct use in their COP deliberations.
Land Day 3 has three objectives. First, it will highlight the benefits of fostering synergy at the national level in the implementation of the three sister Rio Conventions on desertification, biological diversity and climate change. A key question is the potential in a joint work programme that envisages a tripartite cooperation among the Conventions on biological diversity and desertification and a country.
Second, Land Day 3 will illustrate the relevance of (agro)biodiversity in the drylands for food security, climate change adaptation and poverty reduction. The focus will be access and benefit sharing (ABS) as an innovative tool for promoting sustainable resource management. Third, the event will examine the role of science in biodiversity conservation and combating desertification. Drawing on examples from East and Central Asia, discussion will address the benefit of synergies between sustainable land management, the approach advocated for combating desertification, land degradation and mitigating the effects of drought, and the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, which is promoted for biodiversity conservation.
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