Working groups

The Consortium brings together expertise and collaboration across four interconnected working groups:

Regenerative Agriculture; Circular & Transparent Value Chains; Knowledge Commons; and Finance & Investment.

The working groups provide a space where partners from different sectors and disciplines collaborate around shared challenges and opportunities. They ensure that innovation across collaborative projects is connected rather than developed in isolation, while creating opportunities to initiate new partnerships, ideas, and joint initiatives.

Regenerative Agriculture

Circular & Transparent Value Chains

Finance & Investment

Knowledge Commons & Learning

Regenerative Agriculture

This group focuses on advancing regenerative practices at farm and landscape level by combining farmer knowledge, traditional practices, scientific insights, technologies and innovation.

Key areas

Regenerative innovations

Testing, validating, and scaling regenerative farming practices and technologies through pilot and demonstration projects, while recognising the value of local and traditional knowledge.

Capacity building

Strengthening the knowledge, skills, and capabilities of farmers and local stakeholders through training, exchange, and participatory learning.

Knowledge documentation and learning

Capturing context-specific farming knowledge, experiences, and best practices to support learning, adaptation, and wider adoption of regenerative approaches.

Circular & Transparent Value Chains

This group focuses on creating more transparent, traceable, and circular food and fibre value chains by connecting digital innovation, sustainability data, and responsible business practices.

Key areas

Digital traceability

Developing end-to-end traceability solutions that connect information from farm to final buyer through tools such as AI, blockchain, and digital platforms.

Data infrastructure

Creating shared approaches for data exchange, validation, interoperability, and secure management across organisations and systems.

Human Rights & Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD)

Supporting the implementation of integrated due diligence approaches through risk assessment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.

Field monitoring and verification

Using participatory data collection methods, citizen science, and remote sensing to strengthen the reliability and relevance of sustainability information.

Circularity

Supporting resource efficiency, waste reduction, and circular design approaches across food and fibre value chains.

Finance & Investment

This group focuses on enabling and scaling the transition towards regenerative and circular systems by developing innovative financial mechanisms and investment structures.

Key areas

Business model innovation

Exploring new models that create fairer value distribution, strengthen farmer livelihoods, and support more transparent and equitable supply chains.

Transition finance

Mobilising public and private finance to support early-stage innovation, pilot projects, and the transition towards regenerative systems.

Blended finance mechanisms

Developing approaches that combine different sources of capital to reduce risk, attract investment, and enable scaling.

Regenerative economics

Exploring new value frameworks that recognise ecosystem restoration, environmental stewardship, and respect for human rights as essential components of sustainable economies.

Knowledge Commons & Learning

This group acts as the connective layer of the Consortium, ensuring that knowledge, experiences, and innovations are shared across partners, working groups, and pilot landscapes. It supports collaboration, learning, and scaling by building a shared knowledge commons.

Key areas

Knowledge infrastructure

Creating structures and processes for documenting, organising, sharing, and accessing knowledge across the Consortium.

Learning and sense-making

Facilitating reflection, exchange, and collective learning to identify lessons, opportunities, and connections across projects and landscapes.

Scientific engagement

Connecting with universities, research institutes, and knowledge partners to bring scientific insights into Consortium activities and identify opportunities for collaboration.

Knowledge governance

Promoting inclusive and transparent approaches for sharing, stewarding, and co-creating knowledge within the Consortium.