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of combating land degradation is the absence of a National Land Use Policy. A
draft Land Use Policy was prepared some time ago. The Minister of Forestry and
Environment should take the lead role in overseeing the preparation of the final
policy.
The National Action Plan (NAP) that is generated under the CCD is an effective
policy instrument to promote sustainable management of land and land based
resource management and related socio-economic and environmental issues. The
success of the process involves the participation of all stakeholders in desertification
combating efforts. The main challenges in its efforts to combat desertification
include high human population growth in an economy whose development relies on
utilization of natural resources, conservation of biodiversity, stabilizing sand dunes
formed in arid zone areas, establishment of forest plantations on sensitive areas and
involvement of local communities in conservation processes.
The most important pre-requisite for the implementation of a soil conservation
program is the development of a sound land use policy for the country to provide
the guidelines to the government, private sector and the community.
Acknowledgements
A synthesis of this nature necessarily involves drawing upon the plethora of
sources some published some in less accessible reports that have been prepared under the auspices
of the government of Sri Lanka, by the UN system and by the donor community including NGOs.
The authors are grateful to all those people whose materials formed the fabric of this chapter and
the government of China for the opportunity to attend and participate in the Desert technology
training course in Wuwei in 2006.
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