The world’s landscapes and ecosystems are degrading at an unprecedented pace. It’s in our common interest to build resilient landscapes, restore healthy ecosystems and create regenerative businesses for generations to come.
The world’s landscapes and ecosystems are degrading at an unprecedented pace. It’s in our common interest to build resilient landscapes, restore healthy ecosystems and create regenerative businesses for generations to come.
4 Returns: a holistic and practical framework that acts as the common language of global landscape restoration.
4 Returns is a science-based framework that is proven in practice. Developed in close collaboration with leading scientific institutes, business schools, farmers and experts, 4 Returns transforms degraded ecosystems by focusing on 4 key returns over the course of a single generation (20 years).
An inspiring article explaining how our partner AlVelAl is succeeding with regenerative agriculture schemes.
The UN Environment Programme on the work of our South African partner
In this initiative, convened by EcoAgriculture Partners, we are joining forces with dozens of organizations worldwide to enable landscape partnerships to achieve their regenerative landscape and livelihood ambitions more quickly, effectively and at scale.
By all means, we will not easily forget 2020 as it was COVID-19’s first year. A pandemic that, like an inverted magnifying glass, opened the world’s eyes to the relationship between deforestation, natural degradation, zoonosis, healthcare and local food production. Ecosystems form the basis of our existence. They provide us with food, water, clean air, a stable climate, and a pleasant living environment. Without a balance between nature and people, we cannot exist.