Capacity development for sustainable land management : manual

Abstract

Healthy ecosystems sustained by productive lands play a vital role in ensuring socio-economic development and securing basic human needs such as food, water, shelter and health. Agricultural landscapes, water and forest ecosystems are interrelated in a complex productive chain that generates the goods and services such as food, fuel wood, fi bre, timber, drinking water and a myriad of traded goods that constitute the very basis of human livelihoods and socio-economic development. Healthy lands are the keystone of this vital productive chain.