Benin is a tropical, sub-Saharan African nation, highly dependent on agriculture, with substantial employment and income arising from subsistence farming. Benin has recently pledged through the Bonn Challenge to restore 200,000 hectares of its land by 2020, and 300,000 hectares by 2030.

Guatemala has multiple pledges to the Bonn Challenge: a national commitment to restore 1.2 million hectares and the first pledge by private reserves, from the Association of Guatemalan Private Natural Reserves for 40,000 hectares.

Because of its varied geography and climate, Peru has a high biodiversity with 21,462 species of plants and animals reported as of 2003, 5,855 of them endemic. Peru committed to restoring 3.2 million hectares by 2020.