Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs): delivering resilient outcomes for businesses, communities, and nature in Wales

27th January 2025

About

Join us to explore how Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs) brings farmers, businesses, public bodies, NGOs, and other land managers together to enhance landscapes and livelihoods in the UK and Europe. By assembling diverse partnerships with a shared interest in the health and resilience of productive landscapes, LENs creates a framework for multiple landscape beneficiaries to pay farmers and landowners to protect and enhance ecosystem services. Drawing on case studies from other LENs regions, we will hear how the LENs model works in practice, and share exploratory work underway for a first LENs in Wales.

Speaker

Will Stephens, LENs Commercial Relationships Advisor, 3Keel

With a background in supply chain sustainability and community-based conservation, Will leads fundraising at LENs. Starting out at Tesco, Will helped build the sustainable sourcing programme for the Tesco Group from 2007 to 2015, working across fresh produce, food manufacturing, commodities and marine. He then ran Community Fair Trade and sustainable sourcing for ingredients at The Body Shop before moving to Blue Ventures as Conservation Programmes Director in 2018, a leading not-for-profit in community-based approaches for marine conservation through fisheries management.