Strengthening community-based land resource protection

This strategy features in the framework of Agenda 21 as formulated at UNCED (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), now coordinated by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development and implemented through national and local authorities.

Agenda 21 recommends strengthening community-based land-resource protection practices in existing urban and rural settlements.

1. Managing wild renewable resources through local communities
2. Managing drylands
3. Integrating neighbourhood care services
4. Instigating community resources management
5. Improving existing communities
6. Conserving nature communally
7. Conserving land resources
8. Building capacity for land management

1. Strengthening local organizations responsible for land management
2. Practising restorative farming
3. Increasing primary environmental care by farmers
4. Ensuring land users implement improved land use measures
5. Delegating land resource management responsibilities to rural organizations
6. Creating community land trust

1. Maintaining healthy ecosystems
2. Improving accessibility of land resources
3. Developing sustainable land use policy

1. Using ecological approach for environmental infrastructure
2. Supporting community-based organizations
3. Providing assistance to community environmental action
4. Applying community growing skills