As organizations working on food security, natural resources management and poverty eradication, we strongly encourage governments to keep the profile of land and natural resources high in the post-2015 Sustainable Development Agenda document to be endorsed in September 2015. Secure and equitable land rights are an essential element of an Agenda that has the ambition to be people-centred and planet-sensitive. Recommendations cover indigenous peoples and local communities; free, prior and informed consent; women’s land rights; land rights in cities and urban settlements; rights to land and natural resources must be secure.