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This article was first published on the Ecosystems Innovation Substack by John Stubley, with sub editing by Sol Slattery and Shenali Perera. Follow Ecosystems Innovation for more insights from our colleagues in Western Australia on the world of restoration. Sometimes it takes a whole ecosystem to grow an ecosystem. That is what’s happening at the moment with a crowd-funding campaign for […]

Seven representatives from Spain’s Directorate-General for Biodiversity, part of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO), recently participated in a landscape visit hosted by FIRE and Commonland in the Campo de Montiel landscape (Castilla – La Mancha) one of the key landscapes in La Red de Territorios Regenerativos (The Network of Regenerative Territories).  […]

Reflections from the annual meeting of the Iberian Network for Regenerative Territories   This was the question on everyone’s lips at a recent gathering of the Iberian Nework of Regenerative Territories (La Red Ibérica de Territorios Regenerativos), bringing together restoration leaders from across the Iberian Peninsula to advance the network’s collective goal of making the Iberian […]

Poverty is not only about lacking money. It is about lacking choices. In the remote communities of Chembe District, a new journey has begun, one that is not only about financial returns, but about restoring dignity, hope, and the relationship between people and the landscapes that have sustained them for generations.  Here, among nine villages neighbouring the Shamende Forest, 250 women […]

Sarah Prosser and Pieter Ploeg on the need for an Irish Land Observatory Picture Ireland’s countryside: a mosaic of small green fields divided by darker whitethorn hedgerows, clusters of cows and sheep chewing the lush grass, and skylarks and damselflies flying around ponds nestled in the corners of farms that have been in the same […]

KFF2026 takes place 27–29 May, right here in the city where we’re based: Amsterdam. For three days, founders, impact investors, artists, technologists and changemakers from across the world will gather, first at Tolhuistuin, then at Ruigoord, a free-spirited artists’ village on the edge of the city, to ask a question that sits at the heart […]

As Commonland’s work grows across more than 20 countries and over 40 landscapes, we are excited to announce that three outstanding new members will join our Supervisory Board as of 24 April 2026, bringing global expertise in policy, food systems, multi-stakeholder processes, and systems change to help guide our mission.  As part of our continued growth, we have introduced […]

This Earth Day, we’re delighted to announce our forthcoming partnership with Ecosia, the search engine that puts 100% of its profits into climate action, as they make a bigger step towards advancing holistic landscape restoration globally. Today, Ecosia marks a massive milestone: 250 million trees planted worldwide. Since its founding in 2009, Ecosia has built […]

Reflections from RFSI Europe 2026, Brussels bringing discussions about financing the regenerative agriculture transition to the forefront. If you left RFSI Europe 2026 with a single takeaway, it should have been this: the regenerative transition in agriculture is no longer a question of if. It’s a question of how fast, how fairly, and who will […]

Change in a landscape begins with people. A farmer testing new ways to restore soil health. A community rethinking water management after years of drought. An entrepreneur building a business rooted in long-term land stewardship. All of them coming together to envision a regenerative future for the place they call home. These efforts form the […]

The need for real and accessible stories showing how we can grow food and care for land differently has never been more urgent. That's why we’re excited to announce a new partnership between Commonland and Resilience Food Stories for the 2026–27 Good Food: A Journey Through the World of Resilient Agriculture.