RT null T1 Voices from the Land: Restoring Soils and Enriching Lives A1 United Nations Environment Programme, A2 Greenfield, Nicholas A2 de Rosso, Jacqueline Martinez A2 Drought, Simon A2 Luque, Victoria A2 Kup, Viola K1 climate K1 conflict K1 community development K1 Kenya K1 land restoration K1 land reclamation K1 Ecuador K1 soil erosion K1 Madagascar K1 climate change K1 Georgia K1 tea K1 sustainable agriculture K1 cleaner production K1 sustainable production K1 Viet Nam K1 land administration K1 land management K1 Jordan K1 terrestrial ecosystem YR 2019 FD 2019 LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/29748 UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/29748 NO As vital to our existence as air or water, land is one of our greatest shared assets – and degradation of that land one our most pressing common challenges. Unchecked degradation threatens not only human wellbeing but that of the entire planet, contributing to accelerating climate change and loss of biodiversity. Today, with a quarter of our land already degraded and almost half the global population directly affected by land degradation,we are losing this precious resource at a time when we canleast afford the social, economic or environmental impacts of this loss.This book highlights UNEP's work with the Global Environment Facility and partners in support of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification and other efforts to bring a halt to the threat of land degradation globally through the personal stories of changemakers across six countries. NO www.unenvironment.org/gef DS UN Environment Document Repository RD Sep 17, 2026