Technical Workshop for integrating WOCAT SLM/Land PKS/Trends.Earth (26 February 2020)

Dr. Mariano Gonzalez-Roglich from CI discussing technical details with partners from University of Colorado, USDA and WOCAT/University of Bern.

Representatives from the Strengthening Land Degradation Neutrality data and decision-making through free and open access platforms (Tools4LDN) project partnership gathered in Boulder, Colorado to evaluate the possible avenues for integration of tools and databases. We explored detailed use case scenarios and mapped out the user communities of these tools and databases in order to understand how integration will benefit the LDN community. Diving into the technical details of both Trends.Earth and LandPKS, and understanding the comprehensive database on sustainable land management (SLM) practices collected for decades by the World Overview on Conservation Approaches and Technologies (WOCAT), opened up a greater understanding of the full potential of this partnership under the Tools4LDN project. We look forward to building a connected network of tools, databases and datasets useful to our community moving forward. This is the first of two technical workshops planned throughout the project.

Launch of Tools4LDN Project (31 October 2019)

The Tools4LDN Project was officially launched during the Inception Workshop held on October 30th-31st, 2019 in Washington DC. The partners gathered to formulate the Work Plan for the deliverables for the project’s two year timeline. Partners from the government of Colombia attended remotely to learn about the plan for the project and the capacity building activities planned in the country to test the integration of the WOCAT SLM database into LandPKS mobile application and the integration of drought and socio-economic datasets into the Trends.Earth analytical tool.

Representatives from all project partners convened on 30-31 October 2019 to launch the start of the Tools4LDN Project.