WEEK 2: Forum Areas of Discussion and their Topics of Policy and Society priorities and related knowledge needs for land degradation and restoration

During this second week, we invite participants to discuss current priorities in terms of knowledge needed by policy and society to address land degradation & restoration issues. Some keynote contributions will be submitted by policy makers and representative of civil society. We propose to use the same structure of overarching topics to allow for coherency with week 1. We would like to invite participants to answer the following questions during week 2: What do you think are current critical policy and society challenges related to land degradation and restoration? What are the related most Urgent, Relevant and Feasible knowledge needs to address these policy and society challenges?
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1. Knowledge needs in terms of: data, information management, monitoring, indicators and scales that are limiting the current understanding of status and trends of land degradation and restoration

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2. Knowledge needs related to drivers/causes of land degradation

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3. Knowledge needs related to impacts and consequences of land degradation and restoration

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4. Knowledge needs related to facilitating factors and possible solutions for avoiding land degradation, and restoring land (reducing and reversing land degradation)

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5. Knowledge needs related to transdisciplinary approaches

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