LADA’s main objective, using its mapping and assessment tools, is to identify and understand the causes of land degradation and the impacts of land use, including the effectiveness of current/recent responses, thereby enabling adequate and sustainable land management solutions to be devised. LADA provides a global monitoring and assessment system and an interlinked national and local level assessment and decision support system on land degradation and improvement that enables stakeholders (national multisectoral teams) and agencies with land users at local level to identify and prioritize required national planning and policy interventions and actions on the ground for promoting the wide adoption of sustainable land management (SLM).
