Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs) was launched by UK-based sustainability advisory firm 3Keel in 2021, which now operates as a dedicated program that brings together farmers, businesses, supply-chain partners, financiers, and government to co-invest in shared environmental outcomes at a landscape scale. The model has been successfully deployed across 5 regions in Europe (Hungary, Poland, Italy, East of England, Yorkshire), channeling more than $40 million AUD directly to farmers and land managers for implementing nature-based solutions on their land, in close collaboration with key funders including Nestle and Diageo.

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While environmental markets such as carbon, biodiversity and nature repair offer growing opportunity, many Australian farmers face significant barriers to participation including high transaction costs, administrative and methodology complexity, scale requirements and exposure to market risk. As a result, these markets often remain inaccessible to farmers who are managing land responsibly but lack the capital, time, resources or scale to engage individually.

 

LENs offers an innovative and fundamentally different approach that has already proved successful across Europe. Rather than requiring farmers to navigate complex environmental markets project by project, LENs operates at a regional scale, aggregating nature-based actions across landscapes. This collective model reduces risk and transaction costs while creating a straightforward pathway for farmers to be paid for implementing practical, on-farm solutions that deliver measurable environmental outcomes.​​

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Since its launch in 2021, LENs has scaled from 25 farms to 289 farms by 2024, delivering measurable environmental outcomes across entire agricultural landscapes. In 2024, the model supported the reduction or removal of almost fifty thousand tonnes of carbon dioxide, which is equivalent to taking twelve thousand cars off the road for a year.

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Through an Australian partnership, SEAOAK will lead the establishment and operation of LENs initiatives across Australia, working closely with the central LENs team to tailor the European model to Australian landscapes, markets, farming systems, and environmental priorities.