As the world grapples with climate change, threatened food systems, biodiversity loss, ecosystem destruction, poverty, and water insecurity, the need for innovative and unified solutions has never been more urgent. The sustainability of people and the planet depends on a shared foundation of land and water resources. Traditional fragmented approaches, often isolated, uninformed by, or even harming local and Indigenous actors, have proven inadequate at generating effective solutions.

Yet fresh hope emerges through the innovative action of locally-led landscape and seascape partnerships (LPs). LPs operate at the level of landscapes and seascapes–mosaics of social and ecological systems where natural habitats, agriculture, productive land use, and human settlements intersect. Landscapes encompass diverse sectors, scales, and systems, offering an effective scale for place-based, systemic innovation. Local people come together to find and champion holistic strategies to manage landscapes, departing from top-down sectoral management and achieving four returns for their communities: human well-being, healthy nature, regenerative agriculture and economies, and inspiration.

Despite their promise, LPs often lack capacity, resources, finance, and backing from national governments and businesses. Data and software tools–so impactful in other sectors–are hardly available for local land managers. More and more organizations, networks, and institutions have begun offering their support. But their actions remain fragmented and short-term, lacking the ambition, resources, and orchestration needed for a cohesive movement that generates impact at scale.

Over the past four years, our coalition of over forty partners has reviewed, designed, and tested a suite of capacity strengthening, finance, coalition building, and digital tools, methodologies, and frameworks to accelerate the impact of LPs. The offerings summarized in this catalog reflect the outputs of our collaborative efforts. They provide powerful tools, resources, and services that make the landscape management process easier, more effective, and more inclusive. Please contact us if your organization has resources, tools, or training materials related to landscape management. We have a standardized framework, process, template, and review process to integrate resources from aligned organizations, and we would love to include yours as well.