Land is at the center of climate resilience, food security, Indigenous rights, urban growth, and environmental justice—yet it remains one of the most contested and misgoverned systems on the planet. Deforestation, land grabs, desertification, and tenure insecurity are accelerating systemic risks. The Nexus Ecosystem is built to respond.
Nexus provides a real-time, globally interoperable infrastructure for governing land as a dynamic, living system. It integrates satellite imagery, ecological forecasts, policy overlays, and community data to track land degradation, simulate zoning impacts, and enforce equitable land use—all while respecting sovereignty and local governance.
Through Integrated Learning Accounts (ILAs), communities, planners, and land defenders gain tools for decision-making, digital mapping, and rights assertion. With the Integrated Credit and Reporting System (iCRS), every intervention—whether for conservation, infrastructure, or restoration—is traceable, transparent, and just. Nexus enables a future where land is protected, shared, and stewarded—based on equity, foresight, and accountability.
Land is the foundation of life, identity, sovereignty, and survival. It is also a site of mounting contestation, degradation, and systemic risk. From deforestation, desertification, and land grabs to climate-induced migration, food insecurity, and infrastructure fragility, land systems sit at the nexus of ecological, economic, and geopolitical instability. Land systems underpin every major development challenge—from food production, urbanization, energy infrastructure, and biodiversity conservation to land tenure security, indigenous rights, disaster mitigation, and territorial governance. Yet traditional land management systems are siloed, slow to adapt, and largely disconnected from real-time risks such as wildfires, floods, heatwaves, and illegal land conversions
MPM enables land applications to be developed as modular, collaborative, and iterative solutions:
Quests define land-use challenges—e.g., “map and model encroachment risks around protected forests,” or “simulate displacement risks in peri-urban regions under climate stress.”
Bounties fund experts to deliver specific outputs like dynamic soil erosion risk maps, cadastral overlays, land tenure smart contracts, or local land degradation indices.
Builds provide reusable software and data templates (such as classification models for satellite imagery, UI frameworks for participatory zoning platforms, or audit trails for land-use violations) to ensure fast, replicable, and trusted development.
This agile architecture allows institutions and communities to rapidly respond to emerging risks and co-create adaptive land governance tools.
Nexus offers a suite of expert tools across environmental, legal, and economic dimensions of land systems:
Quests span the entire spectrum of land systems risk and innovation, such as:
These Quests can be initiated by public agencies, research institutions, local communities, or private investors, with Bounties issued to global experts, regional developers, and citizen technologists.
There are multiple entry points:
Through Nexus, land becomes both a space of accountability and a dynamic system of opportunity—where stakeholders can foresee, finance, and govern land risks with scientific rigor and social responsibility.
Multidimensional Risk Sensing
Solution Architecture and Responsible Framing
Modular Prototyping and Real-Time Integration
Risk Governance, Compliance, and Impact Monitoring
Distributed Deployment and Adaptive Scaling
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Integrating ecosystem and biodiversity values into national and local planning, development processes, poverty reduction strategies and accounts.
Taking urgent action to end poaching and trafficking of protected species of flora and fauna and address both demand and supply of illegal wildlife products.
Enhancing global support for efforts to combat poaching and trafficking of protected species, including by increasing the capacity of local communities to pursue sustainable livelihood opportunities.
Mobilizing significant resources from all sources and at all levels to finance sustainable forest management and provide adequate incentives to developing countries to advance such management, including for conservation and reforestation.
Ensuring the conservation, restoration and sustainable use of terrestrial and inland freshwater ecosystems and their services, in particular forests, wetlands, mountains and drylands, in line with obligations under international agreements.
The Nexus Reports provide comprehensive evaluations of country-specific risks and opportunities, focusing on biodiversity, ecosystem services, climate change vulnerabilities, socio-economic risks, the food-water-energy nexus, and exponential technologies. Drawing on authoritative sources, these reports offer tailored policy recommendations, detailed analyses, and practical case studies, integrating global scientific research to manage risks and drive sustainable development
