Realising the potential of land restoration
The potential of sustainable land management and of land restoration to generate secure livelihoods, create conditions for peace, and mitigate climate change is becoming better recognised. Ways of realising it are becoming established, but a huge collaborative effort is still needed. All the evidence is that rural communities are ready to mobilise to restore their own land when they can see that they will benefit. To achieve this will involve agencies working together which do not normally do so, and sufficient trust between groups and communities to enable them to develop new patterns of collaboration.
The 2016 Caux Dialogue on Land and Security will enable participants from a diversity of backgrounds – farmers, activists, scientists, policy makers, security specialists and business people - to make silo-busting connections and to develop trust, leading to new partnerships.
Special themes will include:
- Land as a factor in mass migration
- Interdependencies between land restoration, trust and security
- The ideas and initiatives of social entrepreneurs
The Caux Dialogue will bring together:
- Farmers and NGOs with experience of how land is being restored,
- Policy makers who can help create the right conditions,
- People from business, funding organisations and diaspora communities who may discover potential partners in bringing about the needed scaling-up.
Organized in collaboration with:
- The UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)