Building trust, reducing risk, and creating shared value
Land-based investments often intersect with vulnerable communities and fragile landscapes. In these contexts, trade-offs and unintended effects are common.
The Transformative Land Investment (TLI) programme’s approach focuses on facilitating continuous engagement, evidence-based decision support, and co-creation processes to align investor business models with sustainable food system principles. This embeds social inclusion, environmental stewardship, governance, and societal concerns into core practice.
By bringing together companies, communities, and governments, TLI identifies shared priorities – the innovation space where divergent interests converge into practical, win-win solutions.
Sustainable food systems
TLI generates food and nutrition security by adhering to agroecological principles and practices while promoting environmental stewardship, economic growth and human well-being – ensuring food stability for future generations.
Responsible investment
TLI enables agribusinesses to better respond to environmental, social and governance impacts in their investment decisions – actively avoiding doing harm and respecting the rights of local communities.
Social inclusion
TLI improves the abilities, opportunities and dignity of local communities – ensuring women and young people have equal and improved access to economic opportunities and benefits.
TLI makes land-based investment a driver of fair, green and inclusive development.
Five countries, five paths
Ethiopia, Mozambique, Ghana, Laos, and Myanmar are taking part in the project’s first phase (2022–2025). From avocados to cocoa to wheat, each country will chart out unique pathways to tackling sustainability challenges.