A Spotlight on Landscape Initiatives

Landscape initiatives deserve more attention. This insightful and practical report by Ceres is doing just that: it spotlights landscape initiatives and the rationale for corporate and investor engagement.

Landscape initiatives are multi-stakeholder projects that seek to address the often interlinked social, environmental and economic issues at scale, across e.g. a watershed or jurisdictional area. Mostly applied to sourcing areas of terrestrial commodities such as soy, cocoa and palm oil, landscape initiatives can also be applied to seascapes and address issues in fisheries and aquaculture at scale.

Considering landscape initiatives as part of your corporate strategy is worth it. Engaging in these initiatives can bring multiple benefits including increased supply chain resilience, meeting deforestation and nature commitments and regulatory requirements, improved nature and climate risk management, securing a license to operate, improved stakeholder trust and access to carbon markets.

Thanks Ceres for highlighting this key topic!

Definittions and ore criteria for mature landscape initiatives. Source: ISEAL et al, 2024.