SEAOAK Launches Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs) in Australia Following Strategic Partnership with 3Keel

Ebony Greaves
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MEDIA RELEASE

12^th February 2026

SEAOAK Consulting has announced a strategic partnership with UK-based sustainability advisory firm 3Keel and Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs), becoming the Australian Operator for LENs. The partnership will bring the LENs nature-based solutions model to Australia for the first time, enabling large-scale, collaborative investment into landscapes and for supply-chain resilience.

SEAOAK Consulting is a rural Australian food and fibre consultancy driving sustainability and resilience at scale across agricultural supply chains. Established by Ebony Greaves and Carli Davis, SEAOAK is delivering Australian-first initiatives in agricultural traceability and natural capital, working across farming systems, value chains, and landscapes to support long-term productivity and resilience.

Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs) is a proven global model for landscape-scale outcomes

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.

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.

Unlocking farmer participation in landscape-scale outcomes

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.

By rewarding farmers directly for actions such as improved land management, ecosystem restoration and resilience-building practices, LENs enables participation regardless of farm size or enterprise type. At the same time, the model delivers coordinated, whole-of-landscape benefits that support productivity, climate resilience and long-term environmental health - outcomes that are increasingly critical in the face of climate variability and widespread drought across Australia.

Demonstrated impact across Europe

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.

The model’s real-world effectiveness is further underscored by a high farmer retention rate, with nearly eight in ten farmers continuing in the program year-on-year - demonstrating that regenerative and nature-based practices work for farmers and can deliver both environmental outcomes and practical value at scale.

Catalysing blended investment into landscape resilience

The LENs model is designed to blend supply-chain, value-chain, and private-sector investment by aligning environmental outcomes with business and supply-chain needs. In Australia, this has strong relevance for food and fibre supply chains seeking credible investments that reduce emissions, strengthen supplier resilience, and protect long-term supply security.

By focusing on landscape-scale outcomes rather than single-asset projects, LENs supports carbon abatement while also delivering broader resilience benefits such as improved soil health, catchment-level water quality, biodiversity habitats, and drought resilience.

Looking ahead

SEAOAK and 3Keel will commence the establishment of Australia’s first LENs region this month, with plans already well underway and further landscapes to follow.

“SEAOAK is proud to operate the LENs natural capital model in Australia - going beyond credits and offsets to support systemic change that builds resilience at the landscape scale” - Ebony Greaves, CEO and Co-Founder of SEAOAK Consulting

“We’re excited to see LENs launched in Australia in partnership with SEAOAK. We recognise that Australia faces landscape challenges, but there are also enormous opportunities for collaborative, market-led solutions which LENs can efficiently help to unlock” - Donald Lunan, CEO of LENs