Landscape Initiative
What is a Landscape Initiative
Landscape initiatives bring multiple stakeholders together in a defined geographic and/or jurisdictional area to collaboratively address key sustainability challenges, such as deforestation, biodiversity loss and livelihoods.
The power of landscape initiatives lies in aligning the interests of key stakeholders, including local communities, market actors, and governments around collective goals,
actions and investment, so that they are better able to finance and address the system conditions needed to achieve long-term sustainability goals at scale.
Engagement in landscape initiatives provides commodity buyers with the opportunity to move beyond traditional supply chain interventions to achieve their sustainability
ambitions, ensure legal compliance and demonstrate a commitment to long-term resilience, risk mitigation, and brand reputation. The potential to enable responsible
sourcing at scale is particularly appealing.
A good source of information on private sector action in Landscape initiatives is jaresourcehub.org.