Mozambique's economy is based largely on agriculture, but industry is growing, mainly food and beverages, chemical manufacturing, and aluminium and petroleum production. Mozambique has pledged to restore 1 million hectares of its land by 2030, in a commitment to the Bonn Challenge.

In 2015, the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (KPK), announced the "Billion Tree Tsunami" campaign, which aims to turn the tide on land degradation and loss in KPK, a formerly forested province in the Hindu Kush mountain range.

In southeastern Bangladesh, experiments have been done since the 1960s to 'build with nature'. Construction of cross dams has induced a natural accretion of silt, creating new land.