Due to climate change and human behaviour, worldwide desertification has dramatically increased. Over the past four decades, large productive areas have degraded into immense dry lands, depriving people of fertile soil and causing famine, migration and violent conflict. HOMMES ET TERRE believes that the solution to this global challenge can be found in the dynamisation and valorisation of the most ordinary, but at the same time the most fundamental, relationship of the planet: that between human beings and earth. HOMMES ET TERRE is convinced that a future where every human being has sufficient access to fertile ground is within reach and can be attained in a cost-efficient way. HOMMES ET TERRE recuperates, restores and validates access to fertile ground through reforestation and agroforestry in a responsible and profitable way, based on equitable collaborations with local communities. Since 2017, HOMMES ET TERRE has restored over 25,000ha (*) of dry land in Burkina Faso, Mali and Senegal, of which the oldest sites date back to 2009. * 10,000ha = the size of Paris, France