The ELD initiative produced a short information film on the importance of the economics of Land Degradation. The ELD film depicts the value of productive land in provision of ecosystem services and goes on to show the current rapid depletion of this valuable non-renewable resource, which costs us dearly. But how can we prevent this? We have to include the value of the soil's services and the cost of land degradation into our calculation to show that using soils in the way that most of us do t