LAND is our wealth and our future. A better future is possible if we care, protect, recover, restore and invest in LAND. The ground beneath our feet is more precious than we know. Land is the foundation for all life on Earth.

How land is used and managed influences nature, food, water, energy, climate, and even our health. Today, the pressures on land and the wealth of resources it provides are greater than at any other time in human history.

Don't forget the ground on which we walk and the LAND that feeds us. This LAND is our LAND.

📚 Fact of the Month- December 2021- Drought impacts agriculture almost exclusively. The agricultural sector sustains 82% of all drought impact, compared to 18% in all other sectors
📚 Word of the Week - Food Systems
📚 Word of the Week - Fossil Fuels
📚 Word of the Week - Agricultural Investments
📚 Word of the Week - Climate Crisis
📚 Fact of the Month-November 2021- Low-carbon economies could create over 200 million new net jobs in the next decade in 24 major emerging economies
📚 Word of the Week - Methane emissions
📚 Word of the Week - Plastic pollution
📚 Word of the Week - Clean energy
📚 Word of the Week - Global warming / Greenhouse effect
📚 Fact of the Month - October 2021 - Lack of Water Linked to 10 Percent of the Rise in Global Migration
📚 Word of the Week - Water Scarcity
📚 Word of the Week - Water Stress
📚 Word of the Week - Water Management
📚 Word of the Week - Water Hazards
📚 Fact of the Month - September 2021- Adopting a planet-based diet can reduce agricultural land-use by at least 41%
📚 Word of the Week - Consumption
📚 Word of the Week - Food Loss and Food Waste
📚 Word of the Week - Health and Diet
📚 Word of the Week - Indigenous Peoples
📚 Fact of the Month - August 2021 - Hunger had been on the rise for several years, affecting up to 811 million people as of 2020, while healthy diets were unaffordable for at least 3 billion.
📚 Word of the Week - Food Systems
📚 Word of the Week - Organic Agriculture
📚 Word of the Week - Food Security and agricultural system challenges
📚 Word of the Week - Floods
📚 Fact of the Month - July 2021 - Global terrestrial restoration costs – not including costs of restoring marine ecosystems – are estimated to be at least USD 200 billion per year by 2030
📚 Word of the Week - NbS investments
📚 Word of the Week - Land Restoration potential
📚 Word of the Week - Water Security
📚 Word of the Week - Drylands
📚 Fact of the Month - June 2021 - By 2050, total investment needs will amount to USD 8.4 trillion cumulatively, reaching over USD 536 billion per year, four times the amount invested today
📚 Word of the Week - Rural development
📚 Word of the Week- Pastoralism
📚 Word of the Week - Environmental education
📚 Word of the Week - Rangelands
📚 Fact of the Month - May 2021 - High-level dialogue on desertification, land degradation and drought -14 June
📚 Word of the Week - Desertification
📚 Word of the Week - Land degradation
📚 Word of the Week - Drought
📚 Word of the Week - The Sahel
📚 Fact of the Month - April 2021 - A WHO report on the burden of disease from environmental risks analysed the 133 diseases listed in the WHO’s Global Health Observatory and found 101 linked to the environment
📚 Word of the Week - Forests restoration
📚 Word of the Week - Drylands forests/ Forests in drylands
📚 Word of the Week - Drought tolerant crops
📚 Word of the Week - Drought resilience
📚 Fact of the Month - March 2021 - International Women's Day has occurred for well over a century with the first gathering held in 1911. The History behind the Day
📚 Word of the Week - Benefits 4 NbSA
📚 Word of the Week - Gender Equality
📚 Word of the Week- Water scarcity
📚 Word of the Week - Urban development
📚 Fact of the Month - February 2021 - It is essential to integrate land tenure security into national strategies in order to achieve LDN
📚 Word of the Week - Drought
📚 Word of the Week - Land tenure
📚 Word of the Week - Wetlands
📚 Word of the Week - Arable lands
📚 Fact of the Month January 2021 - African greening initiative , the Great Green Wall receives $14 billion
📚 Word of the Week - Investment opportunities
📚 Word of the Week- One health
📚 Word of the Week- Migration
📚 Word of the Week- Sand and Dust Storms (SDS)
📚 Fact of the Month September 2020 -The Great Green Wall is more than just an environmental project
📚 Word of the Week- Land restoration
📚 Word of the Week- Land Degradation Neutrality( LDN)
📚 Word of the Week- Food security
📚 Word of the Week-Youth employment
📚 Fact of the Month October 2020 - One third of the food grown is lost or wasted every year.
📚 Word of the Week - Food Loss
📚 Word of the Week - Gender and Land
📚 Word of the Week - Disaster Risk Reduction
📚 Word of the Week - Poverty
📚 Word of the Week - Resilient cities
📚 Fact of the Month November 2020 - Land-use change, agricultural expansion, and urbanization cause more than 30% of emerging disease events
📚 Word of the Week - Ecosystem restoration
📚 Word of the Week - Innovations
📚 Word of the Week - Land and soil health
📚 Word of the Week - Soil erosion
📚 Fact of the Month December 2020 - About 1.2 billion people don’t have access to electricity, mainly in rural areas, and 600 million of them are concentrated in Africa
📚 Word of the Week - Renewable energy
📚 Word of the Week - Nature-based solutions (NbS)
📚 Word of the Week - Mountain ecosystems