Harmonization Of Regional Land Use/Land Cover Classification Systems
This service is the outcome of a discussion held during the 2018 West Africa Regional Conference on Land Cover Land Use, at which the West Africa Land Cover Task Force was established by SERVIR West Africa, including key partners such as ECOWAS, FAO, GOFC-WARN, and the OSS, among others. Its objective is to develop a regional land cover reference system in support of land cover and land use change monitoring at regional, national, and local levels. The focus is to enable the harmonization of land cover classification systems in the West African Sub-region through the development of a common framework to monitor land resources, as was recommended during the West Africa Regional Conference on Land Cover Land Use in 2018.
Rationale
There is an urgent need to provide timely and updated information about the status of land resources. It is well-known that land degradation not only results in reduced food production but also in reduced environmental quality, life conditions and health. In West Africa, the most conspicuous symptoms of the negative impact of land degradation on food production are stagnating and declining yields and increasing levels of poverty. There is an increasing need and interest to strengthen regional collaboration for sustainable development through a better understanding of land dynamics.
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