 Landscape restoration is about restoring ecosystem function, including regulating the water cycle, maintaining or building soil health, as well as enhancing above and below ground biodiversity. By scaling landscape restoration, ecosystems become more resilient, including agricultural systems, enabling them to withstand the impacts of climate change, while also contributing to climate change mitigation by taking carbon out of the atmosphere and storing it in biomass and soil. Soil restoration is a key component for building resilient landscapes. Starting with healthy soil is key as it is the foundation for land-based ecosystems. And by keeping an eye on soil, we can track how well the restoration efforts are doing. For example, are we increasing soil organic carbon, as we can see here with this dark soil in these grasslands? What about are we reducing curbing, stopping soil erosion? And are we increasing the biological activity in the soil through our restoration activities? Keeping an eye on soil will make sure we're keeping an eye on ecosystem restoration. C4Ecraft have a lot to offer to the global restoration agenda. For example, we have been applying and implementing several systematic monitoring tools across the global tropics for the last two decades. This includes assessments of soil and land health. In addition, we've been working with governments, development actors, lead farmers to co-design assisted citizen science monitoring and data collection tools to bring monitoring and evidence generation into the hands of the landscape restoration practitioners. By doing so, we are able to better understand the processes, the drivers, the root causes of land degradation, while at the same time assessing the impact on ecosystem services of the various landscape restoration activities. The landscape restoration transformative partnership platform aims to bring together implementation, science and policy in order to generate and leverage evidence to inform and scale landscape restoration.