3Keel – Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs)

What is it?

Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs) is a collaborative way of working at the landscape level to achieve impact that can’t be achieved on individual farms or within single supply chains. Since 2021, it has delivered more than €24m to hundreds of farmers across the UK and Europe.

It enables multi-party agreements to co-fund landscape resilience and unites businesses, public bodies, NGOs, farmers, and land managers to finance and deliver initiatives that boost the health, productivity, and resilience of shared landscapes. Each network drives lasting local environmental benefits, with organisations collaborating to ensure their region thrives and continues to meet the needs of businesses, land enterprises, communities, and nature.

How does it work?

In each region, LENs unite businesses and organisations to identify shared land management needs and risks. These needs include mitigating flood risk; improving the resilience of crop production; meeting greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets; protecting nature & increasing biodiversity; improving water quality; and protecting rivers and other bodies of water.

LENs then engages with farmer networks to develop targeted interventions and contract farmers to implement them. Independent organisations appointed by LENs handle measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV).

LENs MRV tracks impact in key areas – soil health, biodiversity, water, and emissions reductions. LENs monitors year-on-year changes to understand how practices work together to enhance landscape resilience. In 2024 alone, LENs farmers reduced and removed 49,370 tonnes of CO₂e (carbon dioxide equivalent), equivalent to 140 hectares’ worth of newly planted woodland for the next 100 years.

You can read the latest LENs impact report here.