Valuation of land and land degradation question the value of natural capital in relation with ecosystem services; it is often quantified using exchange values of services or substitutes. Resilience broadly deals with the capacity to absorb a disturbance. Factors of resilience are identified but seldom, quantified. Thus, valuation and resilience are part of different scientific approaches. Meanwhile, they are both useful for decision‐making. The communication explores the possible links between valuation and resilience from land degradation and desertification perspective, relying on reviews of the costs of inaction, the costs and benefits of actions to combat desertification, the ecological and social resilience based on a series of case studies and examples.