LENs Company Ltd

What is LENs? 🌾🌾🌾 Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs) bring together businesses, public bodies, NGOs, farmers and land enterprises, to finance and implement initiatives to improve the health, productivity and resilience of landscapes they all rely on. Typical needs that a LENs will address are resilient crop production, mitigating flood risk, improving water quality, reducing GHG emissions, or increased biodiversity. Collaboration is vital. A business acting alone will struggle to make an impact because what is needed in a particular geography will go beyond the boundaries of any one farm. Founded by sustainability consultancy 3Keel, LENs is now operational in three regions in the UK and one each in Italy, Hungary and Poland. Many more in this growing programme are currently in development. Why not head over to the website to find out more: https://lnkd.in/eTA_9Tcf

Thanks to Ellen MacArthur Foundation highlighting LENs in this series of case studies demonstrating how food businesses are forming innovative collaborations to help regenerate nature. 💡 You can learn more about how LENs works here ➡️ tinyurl.com/mr3ybt8e

Our current food system needs redesigning, but radical collaborations in the food industry are demonstrating what’s possible. Learn more by reading this series of case studies that illustrate how food businesses are creating innovative collaborations in order to help regenerate nature: https://lnkd.in/eDjDkYYi 🍊 Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs) by Nestlé and 3Keel 🍊 Rescued 🍊 Gabanna Foodworks 🍊 Suntory Beverage & Food & Rosie Begg #BigFoodRedesign #circulardesignforfood

🌽 Coordinated investments in scaling regenerative European agriculture Early this month, we partnered with OP2B, FoodDrinkEurope, LENs Company Ltd, EARA | European Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture, and the Forum for the Future of Agriculture to co-host a virtual roundtable on increasing public-private collaboration in scaling up regenerative agriculture across Europe. Policy, industry, research, and the farming community talked about the policies needed to accelerate the shift toward regenerative farming, explored how public-private partnerships can mobilise essential funding to help farmers make this transition, and addressed the key challenge of measuring and reporting the sustainability outcomes of regenerative practices. Our key takeaways: 💶 Let’s start with making better use of already existing financing instruments to support farmers who might face a loss in profits and increased labour costs during the transition period. 👩🌾 We need to think about how to ‘stack’ public money and private financing to increase the support available to farmers. 🤝 Collaboration, innovation and a long-term vision for agriculture in the EU and globally are the key factors that can drive change in how we produce food. ℹ For more information on our work on agrifood, contact Melanie Muro at mmuro@ieep.eu. 📑 Our reading list:  ✔ https://lnkd.in/esaAGcnV  ✔ https://lnkd.in/eQjU37rE  ✔ https://lnkd.in/dByB_QVp  #RegenerativeAgriculture #SustainableFarming #FinanceForNature Photo by Kampus Production

🎉 We're delighted to announce the launch of Trade 2025 for LENs England in the New Year, which will open the door to significant funding opportunities for regenerative farming and nature-based solutions in Yorkshire and the East of England. 🗓️ Running until 3rd March 2025, LENs England’s Trade 2025 opens for applications in the New Year for participating supply-chain partners. 💸 Crucially, Trade 2025 will not only help to enable funding opportunities, but ensure a laser-focus on outcomes, as well as increased support for farmers on their journey from conventional to regenerative farming practices. You can find out more in the link below ⤵️ tinyurl.com/44r393yy #LENs #Trade2025 #Yorkshire #EastofEngland #LENsEngland #RegenAg #LandscapeEnterpriseNetworks #RegenerativeFarming #FundingOpportunities #NatureBasedSolutions Catherine Wallis Isabel Ross Felicity Flower (née Buckle) Will Stephens Chris R. George Hayes Robbie Dawson

🌍 It's fantastic to see this announcement from World Soil Day, highlighting the importance of regenerative agriculture practices in soil health. 🤝 We're delighted to be one of Nestlé Purina PetCare Europe's partners, working together to encourage and enable farmers to adopt regenerative agriculture practices. 📢 "It's great to see Purina boosting its regenerative agriculture partnerships across Europe," says LENs Principal Consultant Isabel Ross. 🔊 "The regenerative agriculture practices enabled by LENs help to promote soil health, increase soil carbon, boost biodiversity, mitigate flood risk and create habitats for pollinators – all positive outcomes that help businesses to source ingredients in the long term." You can learn more about Purina Europe's regenerative agriculture projects and initiatives here ⬇️ lnkd.in/eW9fq9Bf #RegenerativeAgriculture #WorldSoilDay #Collaboration #RegenAg #Partnerships Donald Lunan Cristina Gallego Ruiz

🌱 Today, we’re celebrating the silent hero beneath our feet: soil. 🌾 Healthy soil does more than grow food – it supports biodiversity, stores carbon and builds resilience against climate challenges. Meanwhile, regenerative agriculture takes a holistic approach, focusing on practices that rebuild soil organic matter, enhance biodiversity and restore ecosystems. 🐝 By working with nature, it creates resilient landscapes and secures a sustainable future for our planet and generations to come. 🌍 At Preferred by Nature, we’re proud to play a leading role in the Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs) project across Italy, Hungary and Poland. Founded by 3Keel, LENs systematically connects groups of buyers of nature-based solutions, such as regenerative farming methods, with groups of land managers who can deliver the work on the ground. The project works to ensure soil health and thriving landscapes. Giacomo Mencari

😍 Great to see Landscape Enterprise Networks featured in this fantastic guidebook from GFI Hive, alongside six other fascinating case studies. 🌊 The guidebook, 'Nature-based Models for Unlocking Private Investment into Water Quality and Availability', explores seven innovative revenue models designed to mobilise private capital into nature-based solutions (NbS) that improve water quality and availability. 🏞 "NbS interventions for water provide a compelling business case, due to their cost-effective, long-term impact and adaptability compared to traditional grey infrastructure," the guidebooks finds. 🌿 "NbS generally offer lower upfront costs, reduced long-term maintenance, and co-benefits such as enhanced biodiversity and improved relations with the communities in which they operate." If you'd like to find out more about Landscape Enterprise Networks, follow the link below 👇 tinyurl.com/mr3ybt8e #NbS #GreenInfrastructure #CaseStudy #LandscapeEnterpriseNetworks #NatureBasedSolutions #GFI #Guidebook #LENs #CaseStudies #WaterQuality Green Finance Institute

The Leven LENs team are down in Newmarket today for the East of England LENs 2025 Trade Launch. They are meeting businesses, farmers and other stakeholder organisations involved in making East of England LENs such a success. Keep an eye on socials over the next few days to read more about their key takeaways and learnings or sign up to their newsletter due out next week to get the update straight to your inbox: https://lnkd.in/edganJC3 LENs Company Ltd Clara Schade-Poulsen Amelia Heath Rachel Smillie #LENsNetwork #SustainableLandscapes #Collaboration #NatureBasedSolutions #LevenLENs

🚀 Last week, 3Keel Principal Consultant Russell Ashfield attended the West of England Nature Partnership's annual conference in Bristol – to celebrate the launch of the West of England's Local Nature Recovery Strategy. 🌼 The first to be published in the country, there will be an eventual 48 Local Nature Recovery Strategies across England. 🗣 With over 200 partners and stakeholders from the region and beyond, the conference brought together speakers from national and regional government, finance, business and the charity sector to explore how to turn strategy for nature into action. 👏 There were inspiring speeches from all involved – in particular from Dan Norris of the West of England Combined Authority, Tony Juniper CBE of Natural England, Mary Creagh CBE MP and Kerry McCarthy - Labour MP for Bristol East. 😊 We were extremely pleased to see work from both 3Keel and LENs Company Ltd recognised as real-life examples of how to turn strategy into action for nature. If you'd like to find out more, you'll be able to catch up on the panel sessions at the new WENP website 👉 lnkd.in/eAPpksV2 #Launch #WestofEnglandNaturePartnership #WENP #WestofEngland #LocalNatureRecoveryStrategy #LNRS #NatureStrategy #Bristol #NatureAction #StrategyIntoAction Zoe Davies Catherine McCosker Photo credit: Anna Barclay (X4), Russell Ashfield (X1)