Why land restoration is key for preventing drought

With over one third of the Earth’s surface degraded and over 3.2 billion people negatively affected by degradation, continuing business as usual is no longer an option.

Research from the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) on tree genetic resources, restoration, sustainable forest management, and soil and land health offers nature-based solutions to combat deforestation and biodiversity loss.

CIFOR-ICRAF has developed a range of innovative solutions that help countries counter the effects of degraded ecosystems, including agricultural land, forests, wetlands and drylands in many different parts of the world.

These efforts are supported through scientific evidence and analysis of how nature-based solutions – such as sustainable forest and wetland management, agroforestry and landscape restoration – can help mitigate climate change, while at the same time protect the planet’s ecosystems and conserve biodiversity.