Jordan

Mainstreaming Sustainable Land Management Practices

Context: Jordan’s natural resources are very limited. Only 5 per cent of the land is arable and the country has one of the highest water deficits in the world. Heavy grazing, excessive ploughing and unregulated water extraction are threatening many of Jordan’s key ecosystems.

Global benefits: Reduction of the impact of desertification, improved carbon sequestration and a decrease in greenhouse gas emissions, while ensuring biodiversity conservation and ecosystem integrity, with impacts on the proper functioning of environmental services.

Strategy: Enhance the enabling policy and regulatory and incentive frameworks that govern natural resource use, promote integrated land-use planning and mainstream sustainable land management in national planning frameworks, and improve the application and replication of sustainable land and water management practices, through capacity-building, awareness programmes, coordination and adequate monitoring.

IFAD-GEF synergies: The project will link ongoing poverty reduction activities in the highland areas of Jordan with incremental funding promoting sustainable land management approaches.
The primary objective of the ongoing Agricultural Resource Management Project – Phase II, supported by IFAD and others, is to increase the food security and income levels of rural poor households. The GEF complementary funding will expand ongoing activities in order to pursue sustainable land management practices at both local and national levels.

Source: IFAD