Land degradation affects about 65% of Africa’s land and around six million hectares of productive land are lost each year. Inappropriate land use and poor management result in desertification, salinisation and soil and water erosion, creating a spiralling decline in the productivity of the land in terms of both food and other natural resources and services. The effects are often felt most by the rural poor. Today, the world is searching for solutions to a series of global challenges unprecedented in their scale and complexity: food insecurity, malnutrition, climate change, rural poverty, environmental protection all among them.The report provides innovative thinking and examples into the way in which the techniques of Sustainable Intensification are being used by smallholder farmers in Africa to address the continent’s food and nutrition crisis.It begins by examining the process and elements of Intensification itself, before considering how we then ensure that the Intensification is Sustainable, and concludes with practical solutions in action today across the African continent, that underline the positive impacts the framework can produce if scaled up more effectively.