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Global Land Outlook (GLO) Report




  • The GLO Report is Published by UNCCD.
  • The first edition of the UNCCD’s Global Land Outlook (GLO) was published on 12 September, 2017 in Ordos, China during the UNCCD's 13th meeting of the Conference of the Parties.
  • The GLO is a strategic communications platform and publication that demonstrates the central importance of land quality to human well-being, assesses current trends in land conversion, degradation and loss, identifies the driving factors and analyzes the impacts, provides scenarios for future challenges and opportunities, and presents a new and transformative vision for land management policy, planning and practice at global and national scales.

The GLO addresses the future challenges and opportunities for the management and restoration of land resources in the context of sustainable development, including:


  • food, water and energy security;
  • climate change and biodiversity conservation;
  • urban, peri-urban and infrastructure development;
  • land tenure, governance and gender; and
  • migration, conflict and human security.



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