Landscapes

Raising the bar through sustainable production, environmental protection and social inclusion

Croplands and grazing lands now cover a third of the earth’s land surface. Through a landscape approach, producers, companies, governments and civil societies work together across sectors and borders to improve sustainability over an entire region.

Our goal is to protect and restore 5 million hectares of vulnerable landscapes by 2030 through integrated solutions to global challenges. We do this by addressing landscape degradation through local livelihoods – targeting activities in producing countries as well as at the global market level.

How

Flourishing forests, thriving communities, better business

Our landscape program uses an innovative, integrated approach to mitigate deforestation while increasing sustainable production and laying a foundation of good governance.

Through this three-pronged production, protection and inclusion (PPI) approach, our work supports four key stakeholder groups:

Helping companies source sustainably and go beyond compliance
Advising governments aiming to protect forests and enable sustainable growth
Supporting smallholder farmers with sustainable production and developing investment-ready projects
Developing pipeline opportunities for impact investors

Discover more about PPI and the benefits of a holistic approach to transformation.

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Bringing landscape coalitions to scale through SourceUp

The IDH-powered SourceUp platform enables companies and stakeholders in producing regions to work together on sustainable agri-commodity sourcing – linking landscape coalitions with markets to scale them up, increase transparency, and facilitate more sustainable sourcing decisions.

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