Land degradation is a critical global environmental issue. It directly affects the livelihoods of millions of people, many of them poor and vulnerable in the world's drylands, where more than 500 million hectares of land is degraded. It also negatively affects the world's ability to increase the production of food that is necessary to feed the rapidly growing global population. It is therefore critical to maintain the environmental health and sustainability of production landscapes. This requires land management approaches that take into account all key natural resource components,...