Component Two of the Regreening Africa project is “To equip 8 of these countries with surveillance and analytic tools on land degradation dynamics, including social and economic dimensions, that support strategic decision-making and monitoring in the scaling-up of evergreen agriculture.”Key to this component is to identify and assess land degradation dynamics, dimensions and indicators across the project action areas. The project will identify and measure key indicators of land and soil health in order to understand drivers of degradation, prioritise areas of intervention and monitor changes over time using the Land Degradation Surveillance Framework (LDSF) methodology. The LDSF provides a field protocol for measuring indicators of the "health" of an ecosystem, including vegetation cover, structure and floristic composition, historic land use, land degradation, soil characteristics, including soil organic carbon stocks for assessing climate change mitigation potential, and infiltration capacity, as well as providing a monitoring framework to detect changes over time