Publications
Initiative 20x20
Bringing 20 million hectares of degraded land in Latin America and the Caribbean into restoration by 2020.
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Mapping Together: A Guide to Monitoring Forest and Landscape Restoration Using Collect Earth Mapathons
by Katie Reytar, Dow Martin, Florence Landsberg, Sabin Ray, Carolina Gallo Granizo, René Zamora Cristales, Marie Duraisami, Kanchana CB, Tesfay Woldemariam, Fred Stolle, Bernadette Arakwiye, Anne-Maud Courtois, Rémi d’Annunzio and Yelena Finegold - February 2021Mapping Together is a guide that shows people how to use Collect Earth, a data-collection tool, to monitor progress on their forest and landscape restoration goals. By hosting collaborative data-collection mapathons, the guide helps users combine the best-available open-source monitoring tool with the expertise of people familiar with the landscape.
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Sustainability Index for Landscape Restoration
by René Zamora Cristales, Doribel Herrador, Nelson Cuellar, Oscar Díaz, Susan Kandel, Jorge Quezada, Silvia de Larios, Giovanni Molina, Madelyn Rivera, Wilfredo Moran Ramírez, Abner Jimenez, Emma Flores, Maria Franco Chuaire, Luciana Gallardo Lomeli and Walter Vergara - February 2020The Sustainability Index for Landscape Restoration introduced in this report is a field-tested tool for measuring the impact of restoration efforts. It offers easy-to-use visual metrics to display biophysical and socioeconomic indicators that measure the health of a landscape. It also describes how these metrics have been used to convene dialogues among diverse stakeholders who must actively collaborate to restore the land.
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The Road to Restoration
A Guide to Identifying Priorities and Indicators for Monitoring Forest and Landscape Restoration
by Kathleen Buckingham, Sabin Ray, Carolina Gallo Granizo, Lucas Toh, Fred Stolle, Faustine Zoveda, Katie Reytar, René Zamora Cristales, Peter Ndunda, Florence Landsberg, Marcelo Matsumoto and John Brandt - October 2019The purpose of this guide is to provide anyone actively restoring land with a comprehensive system to measure their progress based on choices and goals tailored to their needs.Developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and WRI, It is designed to be a supportive starting point to help users focus on a specific landscape context, considering goals, constraints, priorities, targets, indicators, metrics, indexes, and data.
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Mapping Social Landscapes: A Guide to Identifying the Networks, Priorities, and Values of Restoration Actors
by Kathleen Buckingham, Sabin Ray, Ana Gabriela Morales, Ruchika Singh, Dow Martin, Satrio Wicaksono, Hanny Chrysolite, Aaron Minnick, Lisa Johnston and Bernadette Arakwiye - August 2018This guidebook provides actionable, user-friendly strategies to improve natural resource governance by showing how to identify the networks, priorities, and values of relevant actors. The methodologies allow environmental practitioners to be more strategic in building resilient communities.
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The Business of Planting Trees: A Growing Investment Opportunity
by Sofia Faruqi, Andrew Wu, Andrés Anchondo Ortega, Alan Batista and Eriks Brolis - January 2018This report profiles 14 businesses that restore land, highlighting four promising investment themes in land restoration: technology, consumer products, project management, and commercial forestry.
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Roots of Prosperity: The Economics and Finance of Restoring Land
by Helen Ding, Sofia Faruqi, Andrew Wu, Juan-Carlos Altamirano, Andrés Anchondo Ortega, René Zamora Cristales, Robin Chazdon, Walter Vergara and Michael Verdone - December 2017This report discusses the financial barriers and economic issues surrounding forest and landscape restoration. It encourages governments and practitioners to enact policies and financial mechanisms that will unlock capital and support restoration at scale.
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The Economic Case for Landscape Restoration in Latin America
by Walter Vergara, Luciana Gallardo Lomeli, Ana R. Rios, Paul Isbell, Steven Prager and Ronnie De Camino - October 2016The Economic Case for Landscape Restoration in Latin America finds that achieving Initiative 20x20’s goal of restoring 20 million hectares of land in Latin America and the Caribbean could yield net benefits of at least $23 billion over 50 years, an amount equivalent to about 10% of the value of food exports from the region.
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The Restoration Diagnostic
A Method for Developing Forest Landscape Restoration Strategies by Rapidly Assessing the status of Key Success Factors
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Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM)
by Stewart Maginnis, Lars Laestadius, Michael Verdone, Sean DeWitt, Carole Saint-Laurent, Jennifer Rietbergen-McCracken and Daniel M. P. Shaw - October 2014The Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM), developed by IUCN and WRI, is a framework developed for countries to conduct forest and landscape restoration opportunity assessments and to identify specific priority areas at a national or sub-national level.