Initiatives for Land, Lives and Peace and the Yeheb Project are sister projects within the international movement of Initiatives of Change.

While the Yeheb Project has recently become an independent charity, we continue to collaborate with our colleagues at the Initiative for Land, Lives and Peace around our shared aim of improving the welfare of people and communities through the benefits of land restoration. This is especially relevant in the Horn of Africa, where land degradation is so often linked to resource scarcity and conflict.

Together, our mission is: restoring land, restoring lives

Land restoration can be a path to building sustainable peace, locally and globally. At the same time, peace is a prerequisite for restoring land. Changes in human behaviour and relationships are key to achieving both.

We work by:

• promoting and demonstrating changes in human relationships and attitudes as a key condition for peace and land restoration
• bringing communities together in an atmosphere of mutual trust to facilitate partnerships for land restoration and to spread the experience and methodology of trust-building
• developing and implementing policies and practices for land restoration based on trust-building, reconciliation and breaking down human barriers to progress

Here is the introductory video to Initiatives for Land, Lives and Peace:

News from Land, Lives and Peace

August 2023 – Report from the Summer Academy on Land, Security, and Climate

March 2022 – Water Warriors, a project to relieve water shortage in Habaswein, Kenya

Land Restoration: Reclaiming Landscapes for a Sustainable Future

Martin Frick from Initiatives for Land, Lives and Peace is one of three editors of Land Restoration: Reclaiming Landscapes for a Sustainable Future published in November 2015 by Elsevier and available to order here. 

This compilation of current research provides a holistic overview of land degradation and restoration from the scientific and practical development points of view.

The book is the result of a collaboration by a remarkable group of authors, all working on aspects of land restoration from the perspective of diverse disciplines.