This briefing highlights the urgent global need to restore degraded ecosystems, focusing on the challenges and opportunities in addressing land degradation and its impacts on biodiversity, climate, and livelihoods. It examines the barriers to restoration in commodity production landscapes, drawing on three case studies from Latin America, Africa, and Asia to illustrate how restoration efforts can overcome these obstacles and provide significant environmental and economic benefits. The findings emphasize that while restoration offers substantial benefits, the scale of action and funding remains insufficient to meet global targets. The briefing concludes with recommendations for bridging the finance gap, increasing private sector involvement, and scaling up restoration efforts through multistakeholder collaboration and landscape-level approaches.