The ELD Initiative aspires to a world in which land is managed in a sustainable manner that preserves and restores natural capital including healthy soils, enhances ecosystem services, ensures resilient landscapes and food systems, provides livelihoods, and secures the well-being of people. In this world, land degradation is at least net neutral and preferably significantly reversed.

The ELD Initiative makes the values of land count to inform, promote, and scale land solutions for transformative change. ELD is a global initiative that builds bridges between science, policy, and practice.

The ELD Initiative i) provides data and tools on the value of land and ecosystem services that inform land solutions, ii) promotes the use of transformative land solutions with knowledge, evidence, and stakeholder engagements, and iii) scales its approaches developed and applied under i) and ii) with partnerships, capacity-building, and communication. Our ultimate objective is to boost action and investment for sustainable land management and ecosystem restoration.