**5. Conclusion**

The India is one of the first countries to commit to the United Nation Convention to Combat Desertification Sustainable Development Goal to achieve the land degradation neutrality by 2030 during COP-14 held at New Delhi in September, 2019. India will restore an additional 5 M ha of degraded land by 2030, raising the land to be restored in India to 26 M ha. Therefore, ravine ecosystem can become an important milestone in achieving the food and nutritional security in coming decades through reclamation of ravine land with different site specific interventions as discussed above. There is a great opportunity for providing sustainable livelihood to the resource poor people of these areas though reclamation of the ravine with people's participation. An integrated approach with production system for bio-process industry will also generate employment opportunities for local people. In addition to this ravine reclamation is expected to mitigate climate change through carbon dioxide sequestration. Therefore, ravine reclamation should need to be on priority for the policy makers to achieve the future sustainability goals.
