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Humanity is facing a huge global challenge, because 20% of total arable land, some 200 million hectares, are already degraded with an annual increase of about 12 million hectares.

It is notoriously difficult to find money for conservation projects despite the fact that biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation have been identified as some of the most urgent concerns for the planet. There is a lot of talk at various levels of society but little action – the latter mostly for the lack of funds. Sustainable development has a strong economic focus whereby conservation and ecosystem restoration has to provide a living for those involved, otherwise, engaging in those activities is a pure luxury which many of the rural poor cannot afford.

The HERMOSA platform has many nifty features when it comes to importing, analysing and managing geodata. They were explained in previous contributions and can be found in the news section of our homepage. Each one of them is important in itself but the end-point of many activities is the communication about the overall achievement. In most cases this requires several data sets, like maps, graphs, text, tables, and images. Our reporting module is the place to visit when it comes to generating such comprehensive documents. Importantly you can create a map report and a statistics report. The latter gathers geostatistical information generated while analysing satellite data.

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