13. Investments in SLM can generate appreciable benefits for developing countries by helping to increase agronomic productivity, enhance food security, strengthen NRM, and contribute to effective grass-roots level climate adaptation and mitigation measures. The objective of this report is to show that sustained investment in SLM practices is good business for adaptation and mitigation to CC. SLM is local and efforts to adapt to CC must necessarily also be local and site specific to be successful. Hence this report highlights SLM potential contribution to CC adaptation and mitigation in various parts (ecoregions) of the world. Indeed the need to scale up SLM investments is good not just for land, but for climate action too. Many investments and international policy debates, however, have under-played, missed or lacked appreciation of the potential contribution of SLM to climate action at country level. Consequently, this report contributes to elevating awareness by:
Presenting practical analysis that can inform policy makers and practitioners to encourage investments in scaled-up SLM activities that contribute to CC adaptation and mitigation especially in developing countries, and,
Synthesizing the SLM related adaptation-mitigation win-wins (e.g., planting mangroves sequesters carbon and buffers the effects of storm surges on infrastructure near the coast), while noting the crucial operational trade-offs (e.g., tree species such as eucalyptus that are good for carbon sequestration may not be best for biodiversity conservation).
