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Global Issues

Landscape Alliance focuses on four global challenges where our science, partnerships and field experience can deliver real-world impact.

Climate

We generate evidence on carbon dynamics, shape REDD+ and carbon markets, guide restoration investments and embed sustainable land use into national planning.

We align mitigation and adaptation to store carbon, regulate water and enhance resilience.

Biodiversity

We protect biodiversity hotspots, conserve genetic resources, restore ecosystems, and design policies and incentives that reward stewardship.

Work spans research, governance reform, finance mobilization and implementation.

Food

We scale climate-resilient agroforestry and agroecology, restore soil health, enhance water resilience and support inclusive value chains.

We promote tree-based systems that improve diets and reduce dependency on costly inputs.

Livelihoods

We secure land rights, strengthen governance, enable forest-based enterprises, and elevate women’s agency and Indigenous leadership.

We move beyond short-term aid toward long-term transformation.

Climate

We generate evidence on carbon dynamics, shape REDD+ and carbon markets, guide restoration investments and embed sustainable land use into national planning.

We align mitigation and adaptation to store carbon, regulate water and enhance resilience.

Biodiversity

We protect biodiversity hotspots, conserve genetic resources, restore ecosystems, and design policies and incentives that reward stewardship.

Work spans research, governance reform, finance mobilization and implementation.

Food

We scale climate-resilient agroforestry and agroecology, restore soil health, enhance water resilience and support inclusive value chains.

We promote tree-based systems that improve diets and reduce dependency on costly inputs.

Livelihoods

We secure land rights, strengthen governance, enable forest-based enterprises, and elevate women’s agency and Indigenous leadership.

We move beyond short-term aid toward long-term transformation.

THEMATIC GROUPS

Our work in the following areas is demand-driven, collaborative and focused on integrated solutions.

Trees and forest genetic resources, and biodiversity

Sustainable value chains and investments

Governance, equity and well-being

Climate change, energy and low-carbon development

Soil and land health

CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCATION

We work to advance transformative learning and capacity-building initiatives that empower stakeholders at all levels to create sustainable landscapes and resilient livelihoods.

Building researchers’ skills and knowledge

Empowering landscape stakeholders

Improving tertiary and higher education curricula

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OUR LABS

Our world-leading laboratories and genebanks deliver products and services to the highest international standards.

Landscape Alliance Tree Genebank

Soil and Land Health Laboratory

Living Soils Laboratory

Dendroecology Labs

Spatial Data Science & Applied Learning (SPACIAL) Lab

Projects

Our projects tackle key challenges in targeted landscapes, guided by the needs of the people and partners we work with.

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Innovations

Our work tackles global and national challenges through three core approaches.

Transformative Partnership Platforms

Alliances that bring together resources and expertise to address critical challenges

Engagement Landscapes

Geographic locations where we carry out concentrated, long-term transformative work with diverse and committed partners

Flagship Products

Initiatives that provide action-oriented insights into key global issues

TOPICS

We work across a range of focused topics, contributing to long-term solutions and global goals on climate, biodiversity and development.

Agroecology

Transforming food systems for landscapes and livelihoods

Agroforestry

There is nothing better than a tree to make farming more diverse and landscapes more resilient

AI-related technologies

Harnessing the power of AI for more effective and inclusive outcomes

Biodiversity

Landscape Alliance explores the complex relationships between forests, nutrition, food security and the biological diversity that is critical to our planet’s survival.

Bioenergy

It has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, protect ecosystems and secure livelihoods for rural communities – if developed sustainably.

Climate change

Working at the nexus of climate change, energy and low-carbon development to support countries raising their ambition to meet their commitments under the Paris Agreement.

Finance, trade and investment

Landscape Alliance and partners are researching how to make timber and high-value tree crops – such as oil palm and cocoa – more sustainable for both landscapes and livelihoods.

Fire and haze

Building a consensus on the best ways to lower the risk of peatland fires – and strengthening communities’ ability to farm without lighting a match.

Food security and nutrition

Feeding a growing population – without destroying the planet – will take a paradigm shift in the global food system.

Forest and landscape restoration

Providing the evidence, tools and analysis countries need to help landscapes recover and thrive.

Forest management

Assessing what helps or hinders rural people’s access to forest resources, for more sustainable and productive forest landscapes and resilient livelihoods.

Gender

Recognizing that gender equity is both a human right and essential to sustainable development, Landscape Alliance develops and uses knowledge around gender and other inequalities to promote transformational change.

Livelihoods

Taking a systems approach to achieving livelihood and conservation outcomes at landscape level, for both people and the environment.

Multi-stakeholder platforms (MSP)

Oil palm

Aligning policies and private sector initiatives for a more inclusive palm oil value chain.

Peatlands

Landscape Alliance is delivering peatland research that helps stakeholders accurately monitor, report and govern their carbon stocks, biodiversity and GHG emissions and uptakes.

Soil health

Landscape Alliance is providing robust and actionable research on soil and land health, with a focus on soils’ ability to sequester carbon, store and regulate water and nutrients, and provide ecosystem services.

Tenure and tenure reform

With governments, companies and local and Indigenous communities all vying for access to dwindling forest resources, getting tenure reform right is critical for future generations.

Tree genetic resources

Realizing economic and ecological value from tree productivity and diversity

Tree planting

Putting the right tree in the right place for the right purpose to reap benefits today – and into the future.

Wetlands and blue carbon

Landscape Alliance is helping to put carbon-rich wetlands – including peatlands, mangroves,– on the Global Wetland Map.

Wild meat

Landscape Alliance and partners are mapping the path to a sustainable wild meat sector across Latin America, Africa and Asia.