Living Planet Monitor 3: South Asia

On the margins of the Cartagena conference, where faith communities were already demanding that governments recognise land as a fundamental human right, the World Council of Churches (WCC) with the support of its Catholic partners launched the Living Planet Monitor: South Asia – a publication built to trace the links between land, water, and food systems through data and the testimony of communities living them.

The Living Planet Monitor is the WCC’s flagship publication series on ecological and climate justice, first issued in 2024. Its first two editions examined agrarian and ecological conditions in Africa. The third turns to South Asia. Its release at a faith-based organisation’s side event during ICARRD+20 – held in Cartagena, Colombia, from 24–28 February–put it squarely into a global conversation on land rights, food sovereignty, and rural justice at the 20th anniversary of the original ICARRD conference.