Different socio-economic factors may impact land restoration. However the impact of one may depend on others, policies/institutions together and also the development context of the country. This warrants a systems approach to understand the enablers of land restoration. This chapter attempts to outline such a systems approach. In order to do so, it draws on the `national innovation system’ that is used to understand the differences in the degree of innovation in different countries. Such a system of innovation consists of `the elements and relationships which interact in the production, diffusion, and use of new, and economically useful, knowledge and are either located within or rooted inside the borders of a nation-state. Following this approach, this chapter looks at the parts and relationships which interact in the efforts towards restoring land individually and in an aggregate manner.