BCI and WWF-Turkey have cooperated in the ATLA (Adaptation to Landscape Approach) GIS project. The purpose of the ATLA GIS project is to create baseline information and get a clear understanding of how farming activities have been interacting with Buyuk Menderes Delta and Lake Bafa over time.

Small-scale producers play a vital role in sustainable production and land use — but too often, they lack the resources and economic resilience needed to adopt more sustainable practices.This case study highlights practical approaches that are helping bridge this gap by creating incentives that bring climate, environmental and social benefits, including premiums, incentives and recognising and rewarding community stewardship.Part of a series exploring promising approaches for enabling small-scale producer market access and shifts to sustainable production:

The power of landscape initiatives lies in aligning interests and priorities of key stakeholders, including local communities, practitioners, market actors, and local governments around collective goals, actions, and investment so that they are better able to finance and address the system conditions needed to achieve long-term sustainability impacts at a landscape scale.

Le principal avantage des initiatives paysagères réside dans l’harmonisation des intérêts et des priorités des parties prenantes, notamment des communautés et autorités locales, des professionnels du secteur et des acteurs de marchés, autour d’objectifs, d’actions et d’investissements communs leur permettant de financer et de remplir les conditions nécessaires afin d’avoir des impacts de durabilité à long terme à l’échelle paysagère du système mis en place.

The Good Practice, Better Finance project is an ISEAL Alliance (ISEAL) funded project that aims to develop and test methodologies, as well as improve monitoring tools, which would allow for improved access to affordable finance for farmers. This improved access would be through reward systems based on the integration of farmers’ risk management and sustainability strategies with financial institutions’ own risk assessment frameworks.

On 17 November 2021, the European Commission published its Proposal for a Regulation on Deforestation-free Products
(hereafter “the Proposal”). This position paper outlines how ISEAL believes this draft legislation should be adjusted to have a deeper impact on preventing deforestation.

This guidance document offers suggestions as input for consideration for the recent EUDR guidelines on the use of certification. ISEAL has built a broad-based consensus around what constitutes credible operating practices for sustainability certification schemes. Our Code of Good Practice captures this consensus in a publicly available normative document against which all ISEAL Code compliant members have been evaluated.

ISEAL has developed a good practice guide to help ensure that sustainability claims made by jurisdictions, landscape initiatives, and the companies that source from or support them, are credible. The guidance covers the structural and performance claims a jurisdictional entity may wish to make, along with the supporting action claims of other related stakeholders.

This case study highlights how credible voluntary sustainability standards (VSS) support palm oil companies with regulatory requirements such as the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). Featuring the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), it explores how VSS enable traceability, ensure legal production, and promote smallholder inclusion - helping businesses build deforestation-and conversion-free (DCF) supply chains that go beyond compliance.

This report assesses leading metrics for measuring and reporting performance over time and across multiple spatial scales. It examines six critical sustainability issues: deforestation, biodiversity, water use, forced labour, poverty, and greenhouse gas emissions. The research supports sustainability systems in making data-driven outcome claims and provides insight into evaluating metric suitability. The report focuses on applicability of metrics and data sources, best practices, and associated limitations and trade-offs.

This paper discusses how voluntary sustainability standards and certification schemes can play an important role in this smart mix, in particular in terms of supporting supply chain regulation on deforestation.

Discussion paper and webinar on landscape and jurisdictional assurance and claims.

This report first examines how standards systems are being applied to landscapes and jurisdictions. It then explores factors that are important to the effective application of sustainability strategies at a landscape level and identifies opportunities to strengthen the role that standards systems can play in implementing those strategies.

El poder de las iniciativas de paisaje radica en alinear los intereses y prioridades de las partes interesadas clave, incluidas las comunidades locales, los profesionales, los actores del mercado y los gobiernos locales en torno a objetivos, acciones e inversiones colectivas, de modo que puedan financiar y abordar mejor las condiciones del sistema necesarias para lograr impactos de sostenibilidad a largo plazo a escala de paisaje.

A força das iniciativas de paisagem está em alinhar os interesses e as prioridades dos principais atores — incluindo comunidades locais, profissionais, agentes de mercado e governos locais — em torno de metas, ações e investimentos coletivos, de modo que estejam mais bem preparados para financiar e enfrentar as condições sistêmicas necessárias para alcançar impactos de sustentabilidade de longo prazo em escala de paisagem.

Kekuatan inisiatif lanskap terletak pada penyelarasan prioritas para pemangku kepentingan utama, termasuk masyarakat lokal, para praktisi, pelaku pasar, dan pemerintah daerah sehubungan dengan sasaran, rencana aksi, dan investasi bersama. Hasilnya akan memungkinkan mereka lebih mampu membiayai dan menciptakan kondisi sistem yang diperlukan untuk mencapai dampak keberlanjutan jangka panjang pada skala lanskap.