Land health linked to human health

Page reviewed:  18/06/2025

The project will assess land health at the landscape scale and explore the links with human health and wellbeing.

The Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF) will be applied to assess land health at the landscape level. The framework is built around a systematic biophysical field survey and sampling protocol, where multiple georeferenced land health indicators are measured within 10 x 10 km sites.

From the analysis of soil samples and field and laboratory data, we will assess land and ecosystem health at multiple scales using statistical modelling and machine learning methods based on the data from the LDSF network of sites, which consists of more than 300 sites across the global tropics.

Read more about the methodology used in the LDSF. (Link will come)

Soil and vegetation data will be analysed according to the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF). Photo: Stephen Mureithi

View presentation on land health and restorations from Agri4D 2023.

Objective 1 leaders

Aida Bargues Tobella, Postdoctor
Department of Forest Ecology and Management, SLU
aida.bargues.tobella@slu.se, +46907868346

Leigh Ann Winowiecki, Leader of Land Health Decisions
World Agroforestry, ICRAF
l.a.winowiecki@cgiar.org