Landscape Enterprise Networks

Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs) brings together businesses, public bodies, NGOs, farmers and land managers, to finance and implement initiatives to improve the health, productivity and resilience of the landscapes they all rely on. Each network facilitates positive, long-term impacts on the local environment, with organisations working together to ensure their region thrives and continues to meet the needs of businesses, land enterprises, communities and nature.

There are currently currently seven LENs – East of England, Yorkshire, Leven and Wales in the UK; and one each in Italy, Hungary and Poland. Further LENs are currently in development.

In 2024, this growing programme of networks delivered £10.5m of funding into farms from the companies that rely on them in their supply chains. The finance is invested into measures that tackle common land management needs, such as mitigating flood risk, improving the resilience of crop production, meeting greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, increasing biodiversity, and improving water quality.

For more information about LENs, visit the website.

Donald Lunan

CEO (LENs)

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Why do we need Landscape Enterprise Networks?

Environmental and social impacts caused by land degradation are well-documented and a range of solutions have been developed to finance landscape preservation and restoration. However, few of them focus on building landscape resilience in addition to achieving climate targets.

LENs was established to meet this gap, focusing on the business challenge of how to maintain the resilience and stability of supply chains. By bringing together businesses who share needs in common that are met within the same landscapes, LENs unlocks commercial investment in regenerative agriculture. The solution brings together business, landscape and community interests with benefits for all, including nature.

The LENs mission is to regenerate landscapes on which businesses, communities and nature depend.

How does LENs work?

LENs is a collaborative way of working at landscape level to achieve impact that can’t be achieved on individual farms or within single supply chains.

In each region, we bring together businesses and organisations to identify the shared land management needs and risks. We then engage farmer networks to build suites of intervention that can address those risks. Farmers are then contracted to deliver the interventions. Measurement, Reporting & Verification is carried out by independent organisations appointed by LENs.

Impact: measurement, reporting and verification

Biodiversity

Soil Health

Water quality & conservation

Farmer Wellbeing

Farmer wellbeing

Within our Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) programme, we measure impact across key environmental impact areas: soil health, biodiversity, water, and emissions reductions. We track changes year-on-year, to understand how practices interact to support and accelerate wider landscape resilience.

In June 2025, we published the first LENs MRV Impact Report, based on measured impact based on two complete annual cycles, gathered from 289 farms across five regions in the UK and Europe. The practices contributed to 49,370 tonnes CO₂e in emissions reductions and removals, which equates to 100-year sequestration of ~140 ha of newly-planted native woodland.

You can read the full report on the LENs website.

What’s the benefit to businesses?

Businesses that rely on landscapes, for a supply of crops or clean water for instance, cannot succeed if the environments that they depend on fail to thrive. Ensuring the health and productivity of local landscapes is right at the heart of making sure a supply chain is resilient.

Collaboration is vital. A business acting alone will struggle to have impact because the risks are often broader and bigger than what can be addressed on their own. As well as increasing the resilience of supply chains, their investment helps businesses meet many of their CO2, nature and biodiversity targets.

What’s the benefit to farmers?

LENs works with farmers and other land enterprises to implement measures that will improve the resilience and health of a landscape. The types of interventions, and where they are implemented within a particular geography will go beyond individual farm boundaries, so implementing measures in isolation from others in the area is unlikely to achieve the required impact.

LENs helps to finance the transition from conventional to more regenerative agriculture; LENs funding supports the financial risk involved in making changes to how land is managed.

Farmers need to be in the relevant region and able to provide ecosystem services that are of interest to funders (such as crop production, drinking water and flood defences). In some cases, these will be farmers who are already well advanced in their thinking and approaches. We can work with them to drive ambition and to share their learnings with other farmers. In other cases, we will engage with more conservative farmers who are keen to take the first steps towards a more regenerative and resilient agricultural system.

When they belong to a Network, farmers can get involved in training initiatives, meetings, and workshops during the transition and provide them with the necessary information and skills and opportunities to share and learn with other farmers.

Our leadership team

The LENs leadership team has many years’ experience working in sustainability, landscape regeneration, farming and with large multinational corporations.

Donald Lunan

CEO (LENs)

Donald leads LENs governance development, building foundations for its growth. With a background in ecology, he has 20+ years’ global experience in climate, agriculture and forestry programmes.

Cat Wallis

Impact Director

Cat leads the LENs Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) function, responsible for overseeing how the outcomes of LENs activities are measured, verified and reported to funders and farmers. This involves strategy and team development, setting up governance and data management processes, review and vetting of measurement methodologies, developing LENs MRV protocols and regular coordination with a high range of stakeholders.

Emilien Hoet

Strategy Director

Emilien is LENs Strategy Director, leading tech, go-to-market and fundraising. A co-founder of the Carbon Accounting Alliance, he brings experience from climate, VC and startups, with a passion for rewilding and food.

Isabel Ross

Operations Director

Isabel manages UK Trade and EU LENs programmes, and supports new network development. Isabel has a background in practical farming, on-farm auditing, organic standards development, and raw material procurement for FMCG.

Will Stephens

Growth Director

Will leads LENs fundraising and is launching the West Wales network. With a background in sourcing and conservation, his career spans Tesco, The Body Shop, and Blue Ventures, focusing on sustainability and communities.