Nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities (DIROs) are highly local. Recognizing the inherent link between agriculture and the land, our guidance includes an initial series of “deep dives” into three distinct agricultural landscapes. A company with global exposure would likely determine that any of these landscapes – if part of their value chain –requires specific nature-related assessment, commitment and action. This is precisely what we demonstrate in our deep dives, which: 

• explore nature-positive concepts & processes in specific landscape contexts, aligned with IPBES, TNFD, SBTN and other leading frameworks 
• highlight the location-specificity of nature-related DIROs, considering unique locations and crop cycles 
• demonstrate an illustrative corporate maturity progression for one key “unlock” issue for each landscape 
• include leading corporate practices, partnerships, lessons learned and remaining gaps 

Coffee in Sidama, Ethiopia
Top priority action area: Support smallholder farmers to drive nature- and climate-positive production, and improve climate resilience.

Corn in the Upper Midwest, USA 
Top priority action area: Reduce negative impacts and regenerate farm ecosystems through improved farming outcomes by supporting nature-positive practices on and around farms. 

Dairy in Friesland, Netherlands
Top priority action area: Scale-up nature-positive and circular practices on and around farms to reduce negative impacts and regenerate farming ecosystems.

Rice in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam 
Top priority action area: Build farmer resilience by investing in landscape-level approaches with a particular focus on areas of high conservation value and farmer livelihoods. 

Soy in the Cerrado, Brazil 
Top priority action area: Avoid deforestation and habitat conversion by adopting rigorous deforestation and conversion-free (DCF) policies and practices in line with biome-specific guidelines and cutoff dates.  

Watch our webinar to learn more about the landscape deep dives and to hear from companies working on implementing nature-positive strategies in high priority agri-food landscapes.