Sustainable Future-Proof Farming Systems

We create a network of exemplary farms and foodscapes from around the world that have found radical solutions to address current sustainability challenges.

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Sustainable Future-Proof Farming Systems

We create a network of exemplary farms and foodscapes from around the world that have found radical solutions to address current sustainability challenges.

Explore Farms

Sustainable Future-Proof Farming Systems

We create a network of exemplary farms and foodscapes from around the world that have found radical solutions to address current sustainability challenges.

Explore Farms

global network of lighthouse farms

The network of lighthouse farms creates real-life global outdoor classroom and laboratory that facilitates:

Collaboration

Provides excellent opportunities for engagement and collaboration with farmers, stakeholders, industry and policy makers.

Learning

Creates a global outdoor classroom and laboratory for valuable shared learning with real practitioners.

Inspiration

Proposes a mosaic of solutions suiting a diverse range of farms and food systems.

The Lighthouse Farms

Lighthouse farms are existing, commercially viable farms in the real world; they are positive deviants and are 'already in 2050' in terms of providing sustainably produced food and ecosystem services.

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The Challenge

Global agriculture finds itself at historic cross-roads: while population growth and rising affluence are leading to an increasing demand for food, agriculture is using land, energy and resources at rates that exceed the planetary boundaries and can thus not be sustained indefinitely. Notwithstanding recent efforts to incrementally improve the sustainability of our food, more radical changes are now required if we are to deliver on the many Sustainable Development Goals that refer to agriculture.

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