The Global SLM Database
About the Database
The WOCAT Global Sustainable Land Management (SLM) Database is the world's leading repository and go-to information hub for documented, field-tested Sustainable Land Management (SLM) practices around the world. It serves as comprehensive global platform enabling practitioners, researchers, policy-makers and institutions to document, share, and scale proven land management solutions.
Global Coverage: Provides free access to over 2,000 documented SLM practices from over 100 countries.
Supporting Action: Supports the design of interventions, evidence-based decision-making, knowledge exchange, and the scaling of proven solutions for restoration, biodiversity conservation and climate change adaptation.
UNCCD-Recognised: Recognised by the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) as the primary database for knowledge exchange on SLM. Through successive COP decisions, the UNCCD has encouraged contributions to the database and promoted its use in Global Environment Facility (GEF) programmes and projects.
Contribute to the Database
Are you implementing, researching, or promoting SLM? Share your SLM practices through the Global SLM Database and make your experience accessible to a global community of practitioners, researchers and decision-makers!
Why contribute?
Showcase your SLM experience and help others learn from it. By contributing to the Global SLM Database, your knowledge becomes part of an internationally recognized resource that supports learning, policy development, and the scaling of successful solutions worldwide.
Officially recognized by
Since 2014, the Global SLM Database has been recognized by the UNCCD as the primary recommended database for sharing knowledge and best practices on SLM (Decision 17/COP.11). This recognition has been reaffirmed through Decision 19/COP.14, Decisions 11 and 19/ COP.15 and Decision 18/COP.16, which encourage Parties to contribute good practices and support continued collaboration between the UNCCD Secretariat and WOCAT. Learn more about the WOCAT-UNCCD Partnership
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UNCCD Decision 9/COP.15 and 9/COP.16 encourage the GEF to promote the use of the WOCAT Database in its programmes and projects. Discover SLM practices from GEF programmes and projects
Explore documented SLM practices from around the world and discover where knowledge is being generated and shared through the Global SLM Database:
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Learn more about the ECON dataset, providing data on costs and benefits of SLM Technologies, harmonized across countries and practices.
Find SLM Technologies relevant to prevent or reduce Sand and Dust Storms (SDS).
Find SLM Technologies that help to mitigate risk and prepare and respond to Drought.
Access SLM Technologies that aim at Harvesting Water.
Find SLM Technologies that are relevant to conserve Biodiversity.
SLM practices per Ecosystem
Find SLM practices for cropland.
Access SLM practices relevant to manage forests.
Check out SLM practices in rangelands.
Find SLM practices in mountains/ high altitude.
UNCCD PRAIS
Access archived PRAIS SLM best practices, as shared through the former UNCCD PRAIS system (until 2014) as part of the UNCCD reporting process.