Faith-based organizations own and manage around 8% of the world's habitable land and roughly 5% of all commercial forests. That scale of land, combined with their moral authority, makes them major partners in global restoration. Faiths for Land gives them the training and the partners they need to restore land that has been degraded.
of the world’s habitable land is owned or managed by faith-based organizations.
Figures from the G20 Global Land Initiative.
Up to 40% of the world's land is degraded, and about 3.2 billion people live with the consequences. The G20 Global Land Initiative and the UNCCD have set out to halve the world's degraded land by 2040. Governments will not get there on their own.
Faith communities also run around half of the world's schools. When the G20 Global Land Initiative surveyed more than 100 faith organizations across 24 countries for its Faith Stocktake, 92% said caring for the natural world was already part of their mission.
Only 28% had a written restoration policy, and 76% said they lacked the technical knowledge to begin. The commitment is there. What is missing is practical support: money to do the work, and people who know how to guide it. That is the gap Faiths for Land exists to close.
The masterclass and membership are two different things. You are welcome to choose one, or to do both.
A free online course of nine modules that takes you from the big picture to a finished, fundable plan for restoring land where you live. It is open to everyone, and you need no experience to start.
Start the free masterclass → About 9 hours in total, taken at your own pace.
Bring your faith community, your expertise, your funding, or your voice in policy into the movement, and connect with partners already restoring land across 84 countries.
Join the Community → A short form asking who you are and where you work.Here are a few of the 521 faith-led restoration projects on our map. Each one is a community that has already started work on the ground.
“Reforesting the wetlands of the Sundarbans to shield coastal communities from flooding.”
“Agroforestry and reforestation alongside families in the Rwamwanja refugee settlement.”
“Compassion-rooted land care and tree planting across 1,000+ acres in Dharampur.”
“Climate-smart farming restoring degraded land in Sri Lanka's central highlands.”
“Bringing farmers and communities together to plant trees and restore degraded land.”
“Growing an urban garden into a community orchard that draws neighbours to the land.”
We give faith organizations one place to find the people who can help them, from technical advisers and funders to established restoration groups such as WWF, WRI, and World Vision.
The Faiths for Land Masterclass is free: nine modules built on the six-step Faith Tree Growing framework from WWF and Trillion Trees. It comes with facilitator guides, a worksheet for planning your own project, and a circle of fellow learners.
We bring faith leaders together to speak with one voice at United Nations meetings on land and at other global forums. More than 100 organizations from different traditions have now signed the Multifaith Call to Action.
Faith organizations have grown more than 330 million trees over the past twenty years, and plan 350 million more by 2030. Far fewer of those trees are followed up to see whether they survive. We gather the evidence and bring it to funders and policymakers.
The masterclass shows you how to start a restoration project where you live and keep it going, drawing on the teachings of your own faith. You do not need a technical background to begin.
The six steps from WWF and Trillion Trees for growing trees to maturity, so they are still standing years after planting day.
How to involve your congregation, and how to build the partnerships and funding a project needs.
How to match species to place, read the condition of the land, and write a plan that fits your region.
How to record which trees survive, and how to share what you learn with funders and policymakers.
Explore all 9 modules and learning outcomes →
Enrol free and start today. You work through the nine modules at your own pace, alongside a circle of fellow learners around the world. Two live sessions bring everyone together: 5 October and 30 November 2026, both at 3:00pm Central European time.
Create your account and begin straight away. It is open to everyone, and you need no experience to start.
Move through the nine modules whenever suits you, alongside a circle of fellow learners around the world.
Turn the six-step framework into a real restoration initiative for your own community.
Complete the masterclass and receive your certificate, co-branded with the G20 Global Land Initiative, UNCCD, and WWF’s Beliefs & Values Programme.
Free to join, whatever your faith or background.
Faith institutions manage farms, forests, schools and places of worship on every continent. That is where restoration can start.
Faiths for Land is an independent coalition, grown out of two years of work with faith communities convened by the G20 Global Land Initiative and the UNCCD. That work brought faith leaders into a shared working group, produced a Faith Stocktake and a Multi-Faith Declaration, and brought faith delegations to UNCCD COP16 and COP17.
Join the Community. Whether you bring a congregation, technical skills, funding, or a voice in policy, you are joining a faith forward community already restoring land in 84 countries.
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The masterclass is free and open to every tradition. Your community already cares about the land around it. This gives you a way to act on that, one step at a time.
