This pilot explores the opportunity to help shape one of the world’s first truly regenerative coffee value chains in the Eastern Ghats highlands of India, where coffee is grown in diverse farming landscapes alongside pepper intercrops and other food crops such as millets, turmeric, and spices. Neighbouring origins in this broader region already produce some of the most sought-after specialty coffees in the world, yet many smallholder growers still lack the market access, support, and identity-building needed to realise that value. The pilot brings together farm practice, processing, traceability, and market development to explore what a regenerative and specialty-led coffee value chain can look like in practice.

The biochar pilot explores how agricultural biomass, including cotton and coffee residues, can be turned into a value-added resource that supports healthier soils, stronger circularity, and new livelihood opportunities in India. In many farming regions, biomass is often underused or simply burnt; this initiative looks at how those materials can instead be converted into biochar and returned to the land in ways that improve soil function and strengthen the local business case for regenerative transition. Alongside field-level learning, the pilot is also exploring whether emerging carbon finance and carbon credit mechanisms could create additional income opportunities for farmers as part of a broader circular landscape model.

This pilot explores how participatory biodiversity monitoring can strengthen both local stewardship and shared learning across landscapes in India. By involving communities and field partners directly in observing ecological change, the initiative aims to generate grounded, context-rich insights that complement scientific research and support more responsive decision-making. It also helps test how monitoring can become more inclusive, locally meaningful, and useful for a wider set of stakeholders - from farmers and implementing organisations to researchers, funders, and policy actors interested in credible evidence for regenerative transition.

This is a community-led effort to build water resilience in water-scarce parts of Manyam District, Andhra Pradesh. Working with local communities, Raddis, and ICRISAT, the pilot is exploring a Nodal Village Model to demonstrate locally grounded approaches to watershed management, landscape restoration, and everyday water conservation. The intention is to create a practical model that can be learned from and adapted across other regenerative landscapes. For the consortium, this is a foundational piece of climate resilience and long-term rural livelihoods.

This pilot explores how indigenous knowledge systems and relational ways of thinking can strengthen regenerative landscape governance in the Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh. Working with Adivasi communities and consortium partners, the pilot documents practices that recognise rivers, forests, soils, and other life forms as part of collective stewardship and decision-making. For the consortium, this pilot opens an important question: how do we design governance that reflects the realities of living landscapes, not just human institutions?

This pilot develops place-based solutions for regenerative cotton cultivation in Bangladesh as part of the RVO Impact Cluster “Cotton Loop Bangladesh.” The project aims to accelerate the transition from conventional to regenerative cotton production by engaging farmers through practical training, demonstration farms and peer-to-peer exposure visits, creating locally relevant pathways towards more resilient and regenerative farming systems. At the same time, the project connects regenerative cotton production with Bangladesh’s textile industry by combining locally grown cotton with post-production and post-consumer textile waste. This recovered material will be developed into yarns with a high percentage of recycled content, suitable for use in new garments.