Restoring degraded land
Land is central to people's livelihood and basic needs. The world has high potential of degraded land that can be restored to serve the enhancement of human well-being. However, people have different understanding of degradation which leads to lack of coordinated and impactful actions that are required to realize the potential of degraded land. Clear, inclusive and operational definitions of degradation are required in order to assess needs and benefits of forest and landscape restoration.

"Restoration must follow a participatory and inclusive process, in which all stakeholders are involved from the very beginning."
— Andree Ekadinata
ICRAF

First project results and updates available
How do we address restoration more holistically? What are the trade-offs between production, climate change mitigation and biodiversity?
Halfway through the project, RESTORE+ delivers first results and insights to contribute to this understanding.
Don't miss out to take a look at our mit-term update page!

Mid-term Update

The RESTORE+ approach

Identify degradation with innovative measures combining remote sensing and crowdsourcing

Assess biodiversity and climate change implication of varying definitions of degradation

Assess restoration options from
a Food-Land-Energy nexus perspective

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Project Goals

In Indonesia, RESTORE+ aims to explore how the country can utilize degraded land to help forest conservation while still enhancing land based economic productivity.

RESTORE+ aims to assess how new mechanisms in the Brazil Forest Code can support the country's Bonn Challenge pledge.

In the Congo Basin, RESTORE+ aims to inform policy makers in the region with the most updated data and analysis.

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"Solid scientific evidence and reliable data is required by the government as a control measure. Therefore, Brazil uses evidence-based policy for our UNFCCC and Bonn Challenge Commitments"
— H. E. Ricardo Neiva Tavares
Ambassador of Brazil for Austria

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