Soils & Supply Chains: Agriculture in Action Across SAN’s Network (13–19 Oct)

Regenerative practice & climate resilience

Across the week, members kept regeneration grounded in evidence and lived practice. The Rainforest Alliance tied today’s “regen” agenda to long-standing Indigenous techniques and pointed to concrete outcomes—from Kenyan coffee farmers progressing under its certification program to an 82% reduction in insecticide use achieved through IPM on Vietnam tea farms.

Rainforest Alliance led integrated pest management trainings in Vietnam.

Cotton Connect added a market-facing pulse: on the ground at #TextileExchange2025 in Lisbon and advancing a UNIDO partnership to scale regenerative Egyptian cotton, it framed how field solutions travel into brand commitments.

Fundación Natura Colombia linked climate education, citizen science and green business models—showing how public engagement and enterprise can reinforce resilience in the same landscapes.

Nature, biodiversity & healthy local markets

Landscape stewardship also played out in community spaces. Fundación Global Nature spotlighted the LIFE programme’s role in emblematic European recoveries—like the Iberian lynx—reminding us that protecting species goes hand-in-hand with working farms.

Fundatia Adept brought farmers, advisers and local authorities together for hands-on training in nature-friendly practices, strengthening local knowledge networks. Meanwhile in Mozambique, Abiodes kept short supply chains vibrant with an agroecological and local products fair in Jardim Dona Berta—proof that healthy markets can be biodiversity allies.

Integrity, traceability & EUDR readiness

Preferred by Nature kept the integrity conversation moving from debate to delivery. It promoted the International Sustainable Rice Forum 2025, opened registration for FSC Chain of Custody training, and engaged the public on certification credibility—probing whether traceability is verifiable end-to-end, flagging FSC’s new integrity tools, and reminding companies that EUDR-ready due diligence can’t wait.

Farmer empowerment & practical IPM

Frontline support was equally tangible. CABI paired high-level recognition at FAO with everyday problem-solving: welcoming Digibiocontrol to its Bioprotection Portal, partnering with OMRI so organic growers can find certified inputs faster, and elevating women and youth extension leaders whose clinics and trainings ripple through communities. RAAA Perú echoed that farmer-first spirit with shareable, low-cost IPM tips—from mobile yellow traps for leaf miners and whiteflies to rocoto-based botanical sprays—showing how simple tools can cut pesticide risk while protecting yields.

Finance, coalitions & momentum

Finally, the Circular Bioeconomy Alliance convened scientists, Indigenous leaders, businesses and investors in London and at St James’s Palace, making a clear case that nature and health positive business is investable now; its CEO’s keynote at the London Stock Exchange underscored how regenerative capital can scale what works on the ground.

Across these threads runs a single storyline: regeneration validated by results, communities equipped to lead, assurance systems strengthening trust, and capital moving into nature-positive transitions. It’s a network acting as one—rooted in farms and forests, and oriented toward credible impact from soil to shelf.