Shisanya, Chris A.2024-07-032024-07-032024-06Shisanya CA (2024) Editorial: Scaling-up sustainable land management in the drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa. Front. Environ. Sci. 12:1426378. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2024.1426378https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/environmental-science/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2024.1426378/fullhttps://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/28407ArticleThis Research Topic of Frontiers in Environmental Science focuses on different innovation aspects related to sustainable land management (SLM) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), within a framework of different but related thematic areas, whose long-term goal is to scale up these promising SLM technologies for impact at the local levels. SLM constitutes an array of activities that sustain land and its given ecosystem functions (Critchley et al., 2023). Considerably, SLM is generally accepted as playing an important function in soil and water conservation (Liniger et al., 2019). Currently, it is acknowledged as a key driver of “land-based solution” in achieving climate change (CC) mitigation through carbon sequestration and reduction of ...enfarm diversitylivelihoodscalesub-Saharan Africasustainable land managementArticle