Successful restoration in degraded land: Cases, strategies and policies

Call for Papers for the Topic in Land Degradation and Restoration (LDR) Journal Upon the participation on the 1 st International Conference on Land Degradation and Restoration www.landdegradationrestoration.eu LDR is announcing a call for papers together with the 1st International Conference on Land Degradation and Restoration to be held in València, Spain, from July 20 to July 26th 2026: Successful restoration in degraded land: Cases, strategies and policies. The benefits of land restoration are multiple: i) increase agriculture productivity, improve water availability and quality, sequesters carbon and then mitigate climate change, enhance biodiversity and wildlife habitat, reduce disaster risks (floodings, landslides..), and support economic development and food security. However, the land restoration faces many challenges: i) high cost; ii) long timeframes; iii) land tenure and governance issues; iv) climate variability; v) monitoring and evaluation complexity. The restoration programs are actives in all over the world. The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030), the Bonn Challenge Aims to restore 350 million hectares by 2030, the Great Green Wall (Africa) combats desertification in the Sahel and the Land Degradation Neutrality (SDG Target 15.3). And, although some programs fail, others show very positive results: i) Loess Plateau, China, transformed degraded land into productive farmland through terracing and reforestation; ii) Rwanda’s Gishwati Forest that successfully restoration of biodiversity and erosion control through agroforestry; and India’s Watershed Development Projects that restored arid and semi-arid lands using water harvesting and soil conservation. Most of the restoration examples are based in fundamental science that for more than a century researched the land degradation processes and mechanisms. This scientific development was applied in farms, watersheds, basins, regions, countries and continents by means of strategies and policies to recover degraded land. Some of the strategies and policies resulted in successful restoration actions. This session call for those examples applied at different scales -from soil to continents- that contributed to improve the soil, water, atmosphere and plants in the planet and the life of humans and the health of the planet. Join us in Valencia, Spain, for the 2026 Land Degradation and Restoration conference and the positive view of the Successful restoration in degraded land. Cases, strategies and policies scientific session. And contribute to the special issue on Land Degradation and Restoration journal special issue. Academic Editors Prof. Artemi Cerdà, Soil Erosion and Degradation Research Team Universitat de València, Spain. artemio.cerda@uv.es Prof. Jesús Barrena, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain. jesus.barrena@uva.es Prof. Ying Zhao, Global Institute for Water Security, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. yiz097@mail.usask.ca Prof. Saskia Keesstra, University of Wageningen, Netherlands. saskia.keesstra@wur.nl Submission Guidelines Author submission guidelines can be found at: https://www.sciltp.com/journals/LDR/instructionForAuthors When submitting your manuscript via the online submission portal: https://sciflux.org/authors/submissions/add-submissions?journalCode=1958796413807472642 , please select the relevant Special Issue title. All manuscripts will undergo peer review in accordance with the journal’s established policies and procedures. Final acceptance will be based on the peer-review reports and the evaluation of the Academic Editors and the Editor-in-Chief. Decisions will be made by the Editor-in-Chief or Academic Editors who have no conflicts of interest with any of the authors.