How Hommes & Terre proves community-led restoration impact to funders
CLIENT
SCOPE
SOLUTIONS
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THE CLIENT
Hommes & Terre
Hommes & Terre is a Belgian-African organization with a social mission: to restore degraded land while ensuring that local communities have sustainable access to fertile land.
Their work combines ecological restoration, sustainable agroforestry, and community collaboration. The organization develops and manages restored landscapes together with local communities, with a model designed to create ecological, economic, and social impact.
Hommes & Terre’s approach is based on a simple understanding: landscape restoration is not only about bringing vegetation back. It is also about rebuilding the conditions that allow people and ecosystems to thrive together.
Across its projects, Hommes & Terre works on degraded common lands, where desertification, soil erosion, declining fertility, and pressure on natural resources affect both nature and community resilience.
THE CHALLENGE
Showing the full reality of landscape restoration
Landscape restoration is difficult to communicate because much of the work happens slowly, across large areas, and through many small changes.
For Hommes & Terre, the challenge is not only to show hectares restored. Their work also includes community governance, social cohesion, soil regeneration, biodiversity recovery, water retention, agroforestry, and new income opportunities linked to restored landscapes.
This creates a communication challenge:
→ Where exactly is restoration taking place?
→ What does the landscape look like before, during, and after intervention?
→ How are local communities involved?
→ What ecological changes are becoming visible over time?
→ How can funders see that work is happening on the ground?
→ How can social, ecological, and economic outcomes be communicated together?
→ How can a restoration story be shared without reducing it to numbers alone?
Traditional reports and presentations can explain the model, but they often struggle to show the living reality of landscape restoration: the land, the people, the activities, and the progress over time.
Hommes & Terre needed a way to make its work easier to see, follow, and trust.
“explorer.land is a way to really show to investors and funders that we are doing work on the ground, it’s not just a nice presentation, there is real stuff going on.”
Gilles Vanermen, Head of Project Development, Hommes & Terre
THE PLATFORM
A self-service way to make landscape restoration visible
Hommes & Terre uses explorer.land to present its restoration work through interactive maps, geolocated updates, photos, videos, and project information.
The platform gives the organization a public space where restoration projects can be shown in their real landscape context without needing a custom-built website, bespoke development, or manual map production.
For Hommes & Terre, explorer.land acts as a living communication layer: a place to show where work is happening, share updates from the field, and make restoration progress easier for funders, partners, and wider audiences to follow.
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A public profile for the organization
Through explorer.land, Hommes & Terre has a dedicated public organization profile where visitors can explore its mission, projects, and restoration activities in one place.
This gives the organization a clear reference point to share with funders, partners, and other stakeholders. Instead of relying only on PDFs, presentations, or scattered updates, Hommes & Terre can point people to a public profile that brings its work together visually.
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Geolocated updates from the field
Hommes & Terre can use explorer.land to share updates connected to specific locations.
Photos, videos, and short field reports can be added to the map, creating a visible timeline of restoration activities. This helps show the many steps behind long-term landscape recovery: community meetings, field preparation, planting, agroforestry work, soil and water interventions, monitoring, and signs of ecological change.
For funders and partners, this creates a more continuous view of progress between formal reports.
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Storytelling beyond hectares restored
Restoration work cannot be fully explained through numbers alone.
With explorer.land, Hommes & Terre can show the human and ecological dimensions of its projects together: degraded land, restored vegetation, local participation, community governance, livelihoods, soil recovery, and biodiversity.
The platform helps communicate landscape restoration as a living process, not just a metric.
THE RESULTS
A clearer public window into community-led landscape restoration
Through explorer.land, Hommes & Terre can make its restoration work more visible, understandable, and easier to follow.
The platform helps show:
-> where restoration projects are located,
-> how degraded landscapes are being restored,
-> how communities are involved,
-> what field activities are taking place,
-> how ecological and social outcomes connect,
-> and how progress develops over time.
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