Towards the Kenya National Trialogue: Accelerating Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Implementation through Strengthened Science-Policy-Practice Interface

Participants debated the underlying issues, visited commercial farmers to gain further understanding of the current situation and appreciated the voluntary land degradation neutrality targets of their respective countries. At the end, each country presented a proposed action plan with outlined immediate, medium-term and long-term actions that participants committed to pursue. The entry points of proposed national actions varied from country to country.

Kenyan participants showed ambition to address land degradation and improve conditions for pollinators and/or maintain pollination. They proposed key actions to manage immediate risks and utilize existing opportunities and pledged to take up the transformation of agricultural landscapes in the medium term by promoting ecologically intensive agriculture that incorporates active management of ecosystem services. In the long term, Kenya’s ambition was to transform the relationship between society and nature by not only integrating people’s diverse knowledge of nature into landscape management but also linking people and pollinators through collaborative, cross-sectoral approaches. Kenya’s Action Plan identified individuals and institutions to initiate these activities and report progress to the Government and BES-Net on a regular basis.