Nomadic herding husbandry has been the economic backbone of Mongolia for centuries, but is now contributing to severe landscape degradation across the Mongolian plateau due to recent increase in the number of livestock and unsustainable grazing practices.

A degraded landscape with potential to bring back hope, biodiversity and sustainable, large-scale agriculture.

The Baviaanskloof is an important hotspot of biodiversity and ‘the water tower’ of several cities in South Africa. Climate Change and Overgrazing pressure the region, but communities innovate to restore their landscape.

The Langkloof lost wetlands, biodiversity and is prone to droughts and floods. At the same time, inspiring opportunities around wildly harvested honeybush are emerging.

WOA is a 4 returns business and investment company, vertically integrated into the agricultural value chain.

Grounded works with farmers in several landscapes of sub-saharan Africa to explore and develop sustainable agricultural models that are markedly more sustainable and profitable.

This is AlVelAl – a movement of people aiming to implement regenerative agriculture at scale, to create the demand for regenerative produce and to restore natural zones on farms and on public land.

In a previously mined out area, in the town of Osino in Ghana, a small scale fish farm was established, to repair the landscapes’ ecological functioning while at the same time feed the local community with quality fish stocks.

The highly degraded lowlands surrounding Mt. Hekla in Iceland are being restored back to a lush birch woodland ecosystem by the ambitious Hekluskógar restoration project.