Resources

Accountability Framework initiative (AFi)
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The AFi provides common language and practical guidance to implement and verify no-deforestation/no-conversion and human rights commitments across agriculture and forestry supply chains.

Circular Bioeconomy Alliance – Principles for Regenerative Landscapes
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The Circular Bioeconomy Alliance (CBA) Principles for Regenerative Landscapes find their origin in strong sustainability, social-ecological resilience and harnessing local context as the conceptual basis for landscape regeneration.

CDP – Meeting Nature Goals through Landscape Initiatives
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CDP helps companies build knowledge and disclose engagement with existing initiatives and multi-stakeholder processes/platforms (MSPs) that can evolve into impactful landscape and jurisdictional initiatives, driving progress toward nature-related goals.

Commonland - 4 Returns Framework
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Many serious issues facing the world, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, food security and mass migration, can be traced back to degrading landscapes. The 4 Returns framework tackles the four main losses associated with land degradation – loss of hope, social networks, biodiversity and economic value – and aims to regenerate the landscape to create 4 Returns instead: Return of Inspiration, social, natural and financial returns.

ISEAL Alliance Landscape Guidance
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ISEAL provides practical steps and good-practice guidance for brands and companies to engage credibly and effectively at a landscape/jurisdictional scale, ensuring robust monitoring and credible claims related to sustainability impacts.

LandScale
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LandScale structures indicators and methods across environment, human well-being, governance, and production; supports multi-stakeholder baselines and progress tracking; and enables independently reviewed claims with public profiles and scorecards.

Science Based Targets Network (SBTN)
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SBTN’s Landscape Engagement target asks companies to work with established local partners in priority landscapes to improve agreed ecological and social indicators - with a focus on land use, land-use change, and soil pollution. Companies and stakeholders co-select relevant indicators, measure a baseline, and set a target year and ambition level for the place.

1000 Landscapes for 1 Billion People (1000L)
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1000L is a collaboration of practitioner organisations advancing integrated landscape management including Commonland (and the 4 Returns approach) and Regen10. Together, this community builds tools, knowledge, and partnerships to restore landscapes, grow rural prosperity, and tackle climate change at scale.

Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) Africa
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The Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) is the home of GLF Africa - a platform dedicated to addressing environmental and socio-economic challenges across Africa, focusing on landscape restoration and sustainable development.

International Model Forest Network (IMFN)
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The IMFN is a voluntary global community of practice working toward sustainable management of forest-based landscapes and natural resources through the Model Forest approach.

Jurisdictional Approaches Resource Hub
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Hosted by SourceUp (originally developed by the Tropical Forest Alliance), this hub is a comprehensive library for landscape and jurisdictional approach tools, events, and case studies supporting responsible production and sourcing of forest-risk commodities.

Landscapes For Our Future
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An EU-funded programme supporting 22 projects across 30+ countries in the Global South. It proposes Integrated Landscape Management as a process for fostering co-created sustainability and resilience through adaptive, inclusive, and integrated strategies.

Green Finance Initiative (GFI) Hive
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The GFI Hive latest podcast series Financing Nature explores how to unlock and mobilise private investment for nature restoration and nature-based solutions, including landscape approaches.

Landscape Finance Lab
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The Landscape Finance Lab bridges conservation practitioners and investors, supporting the design, structuring, and financing of sustainable landscape programmes that deliver impacts on the Global Sustainable Development Goals.

WWF International
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Together with Proforest and the UNEP, WWF produced Finance for Landscapes: Insights from Impact Investors. A compilation of insights from interviews with impact investors on what it takes to fund landscape deals; practical lessons on risk, pipeline, and verification.