Components of Future Landscapes
Catalyzing financing for regenerative transitions:
Future Landscapes has four specific areas of expertise or Business Units:
KNOWLEDGE
This unit consolidates key science-based definitions or standards on Regenerative Ranching and Agriculture (R2A), technical guidelines, and training materials for regenerative productive practices.
BUSINESS MODELS
This unit develops business models whose products or services accelerate the rate of transition to regenerative practices in ranching and agriculture. In addition to providing information and training for the development and implementation of value chain business plans (including practices, partners, land planning, related investments or business cases, and safeguard protocols).
PUBLIC POLICY
This unit analyzes risks and opportunities within the policy and regulatory framework and proposes solutions, methodologies, and guidelines for the joint design of public policy instruments. It is also responsible for ensuring alignment of the Impact Network with Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), National Adaptation Plans (NAPs), National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAPs), and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
PRIVATE FINANCE
This unit designs financial instruments and legal structures that meet the needs of new regenerative business models or production systems. This will attract financiers to implement regenerative agriculture and create good practice standards for financial assessment of business models by value chain.
How will this be done?
The Regional Impact Network will provide the above-mentioned support, functions, services, and products through specific tools that will be hosted on a single digital platform with different digital microsites:
Knowledge products repository
It will include training courses and materials, methodologies, and analyses supporting the implementation of Regenerative Ranching and Agriculture on the ground.
Methodological framework of indicators for the transition to Regenerative Ranching and Agriculture
A comprehensive assessment tool that seeks to verify the progress and impact of the transition of agricultural systems to regenerative systems, at the property and landscape scale, incorporating environmental, social, and economic variables.
Policy Repository
This will have two main functions. 1) It will act as an archive where policies impacting agriculture and its transition to regenerative practices can be found. 2) The repository will have a bi-directional function that will allow the participation of different audiences to form a community of practice where policies and possible improvements can be discussed.
Marketplace Tool
It will act as a meeting point to provide a space for interaction between actors in the value chain. It will also allow interaction between producers, buyers, and service providers (such as extension services, input suppliers, guarantee solutions, financial services).