This includes taking a landscape approach to transforming agricultural systems, ensuring the voices of farmers, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities are heard, and that corporates and financial institutions are appropriately engaged.
IUCN is a key partner of Regen10, a multistakeholder initiative aiming at promoting Regenerative Agriculture. IUCN is working with 1000 Landscapes for 1 billion people as part of Regen10 to strengthen and support landscape partnerships, which bring together stakeholders within the same landscape to develop and implement a shared approach to transitioning food systems.
The IUCN Food and Agricultural Systems team is actively involved in the NATAE project, notably through helping to monitor six living labs across various countries in North Africa. These labs function as collaborative hubs where food system actors come together to identify and test agroecological practices, laying the groundwork for sustainable agricultural transformation in the region and offering valuable insights into the evolving landscape of agroecology in North Africa.
The SUSTAIN Pro initiative is dedicated to fostering sustainable food systems and productive landscapes in Tanzania and Mozambique. By integrating sustainable agricultural practices, restoring land health through Nature-based Solutions and landscape partnerships, and driving investment in sustainable value chains, SUSTAIN Pro aims to balance economic growth with environmental resilience and social prosperity in two of Africa's key agricultural corridors.
IUCN in collaboration with the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU), as part of the IKI funded ReSupply project, developed a guide to investing in landscape restoration to sustain agri-food supply chains to support agribusinesses aiming to tackle land degradation in their supply chains and scale investments into landscape restoration.
A guide to investing in landscape restoration to sustain agri-food supply chains | IUCN
IUCN and Nestlé Nespresso, the international coffee brand and subsidiary of Nestlé, have worked together since 2010 on a range of sustainability issues. See more by clicking the links:
The Nespresso GEF Project “Reviving high quality coffee to stimulate climate adaptation in smallholder farming communities (2020–2024)” aims to increase incomes and improve resilience to climate change for smallholder coffee farming households in South Kivu, DRC and in the Masaka region of Uganda. Component 1 is Resilient agricultural livelihoods; Component 2 focuses on Equitably supporting smallholder coffee farming households through Nespresso’s responsible sourcing approach; and Component 3 deals with knowledge sharing.
IUCN collaborated with Ferrero, an international confectionery and chocolate manufacturing company – specifically with the Hazelnut Company division – on the identification of regenerative best practices for hazelnut orchards in Turkey, Italy and Chile.
Ferrero Sustainability Report 2023
