Videos

Voices of the Landscapes: Stories of the water

15 Jul 2026

  This powerful session shares grassroots stories from Brazil’s Cerrado, highlighting the deep connection between water, biodiversity and community-led restoration. Through lived experiences, speakers demonstrate how seed collection, ecosystem recovery and traditional knowledge are sustaining livelihoods while protecting vital water sources, showing how restoring nature also restores culture, livelihoods and hope for future generations. Listen […]

Dr. Carlos Nobre, Nobel Laureate, on healing the land

15 Jul 2026

  Can we save the Amazon by changing how we value the forest? Join world-renowned Earth System scientist, Nobel Laureate, and newly appointed Vatican advisor Dr. Carlos Nobre for an urgent exploration of our planet’s most critical ecological frontier. This keynote address explores how nature-based solutions, zero deforestation and large-scale forest restoration can safeguard biodiversity, […]

Regen10: A shared direction for regenerative transitions

15 Jul 2026

  A shared direction for regenerative transitions In this keynote, Tara Shams of Regen10 explores how shared outcomes, landscape approaches and multi-stakeholder collaboration can accelerate regenerative transitions. The session introduces the Regen10 Outcomes Framework, demonstrating how place-based action and locally led decision-making can guide regenerative agriculture without prescribing a single model or set of practices. Through examples from […]

Voices of the Landscape: Stories from the mountains

15 Jul 2026

  Every landscape has a story, and every community has the power to shape its future. This video follows restoration champions across the Andes as they protect forests, conserve biodiversity and restore ecosystems through community action, traditional knowledge and sustainable land management.   Through inspiring stories from farmers, youth leaders and restoration stewards, the video […]

Opening plenary: From margins to mainstay

5 Jun 2026

  This opening plenary brings together pastoralists, scientists, policymakers, Indigenous peoples advocates, and community leaders to directly challenge and deconstruct myths and misconceptions that have long shaped how rangelands and pastoral systems are governed and invested in. From the power of biocultural mapping as a tool for land rights advocacy, to co-designed restoration models that […]

Closing plenary: Governing a common

5 Jun 2026

  This closing plenary explores the future of governing Africa’s rangelands as shared commons shaped by community stewardship, Indigenous knowledge and collective responsibility. The plenary highlights the policy and institutional reforms needed to reverse degradation, resolve conflict, revitalize pastoral systems and improve rangeland management. Explore inclusive, multi-level governance that secures land and mobility rights, strengthens […]

Rising with the land: Communities leading climate resilience in Kenya

4 Jun 2026

  Across Kenya’s rangelands, local communities are rising as stewards of nature – building resilience in the face of a changing climate. In this video, Dickson Ole Kaelo, CEO of the Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association (KWCA), shares how wildlife conservancies are transforming climate vulnerability into resilience through sustainable grazing, wildlife-friendly land management, eco-tourism, and carbon […]

The land–peace nexus: Preventing farmer–herder conflicts in the Ferlo, Senegal

4 Jun 2026

  The Ferlo ecological plateau is home to two-thirds of the Senegal’s ruminants, but it faces several challenges, including drought, the climate crisis and resource scarcity. In the Ferlo region, cross-border transhumance has resulted in violent tensions between farmers and pastoralists as they compete for land and water, leading herders to encroach on farmland while […]

Voices of the Landscape: Stories of renewal

4 Jun 2026

  What if we stopped treating the land as a resource and started listening to it as a witness? This video showcase invites you to pause and truly listen to the Earth, its stewards and its scars. This journey spans geographies and generations, grounded in stories of identity, resilience, loss and hope. These restoration stories […]

Ramat: A philosophy rooted in stewardship and respect for the land

4 Jun 2026

  The Ramat model is a community-centered initiative designed to scale up proven land restoration practices through enhanced local engagement, awareness and sustainable management. At its core, the model promotes low-cost, high-impact techniques dryland techniques to restore forests and rangelands, complemented by pastoralist community traditional bylaws and knowledge on grazing patterns and norms.