The DESIRE Project aimed to provide scientific evidence for successful strategies to mitigate desertification and remediate degraded land through a global approach and local solutions. It had 26 partners across 16 sites in countries like Turkey, China, Chile and Morocco. The project's objectives were to give land management measures a scientific basis, improve indicators, assess promising strategies with stakeholders, evaluate measures at a regional scale, and disseminate results. It conducted field experiments of 22 land management technologies in 57 sites across 13 countries. Models were developed and results were communicated through various publications and engagement with UNCCD bodies and national governments.