Landscape Intelligence Network

Purpose

The Landscape Intelligence Network (LIN) is a working lands collaborative building more resilient landscapes that strengthen food security and community wellbeing by connecting working land managers, scientists, supply chain professionals, and policy makers through data-driven and anticipatory conversations, practices, models, and tools.

Vision

• External: The Landscape Intelligence Network sees working land managers, scientists, supply chain professionals, and policy makers collaboratively reimagining the food system through the lens of resilience—with LIN offering the insights, verifiable data, models, and tools they need to bring that to life.
• Internal: The Landscape Intelligence Network aims to be an interdisciplinary hub that questions conventional thinking, alleviates challenges, and fosters innovation and collaboration in the food system.

Approach

This is all rooted in four principles:

• We lead with curiosity /// Meeting managers and partners where they are and asking better questions to find out what's needed most—no producer left behind.
• We make progress through collaboration /// Making meaningful connections across disciplines, industries, communities, and working lands.
• We share our findings openly /// Inviting a standard of excellence and transparency in every exchange and contribution.
• We find opportunities in disturbance /// Adapting to and leveraging landscape and market shifts in ways that strengthen the whole system.

Focus Areas

LIN is creating a collaborative that brings together academic expertise, farmer knowledge, and industry insights to tackle the cross-cutting problem of landscape degradation and its rippling impacts:

• Resilience: Our resilience work is focused on the food and fiber industries and spans the entire supply chain. Our research connects landscape resilience to assured supply of safe, healthy, and accessible food and fibers. We are developing data driven tools and decision-making frameworks to assess resilience for use across the supply chain.
• Engagement: Great science and tools alone won’t get us to implementation. We are working to educate policy makers, suppliers, brands, and land stewards about the importance of resilience and what it takes to increase resilience across landscapes, land stewards, suppliers, and retailers.
• Workforce Development: Alongside the research, our team is developing a suite of educational opportunities for executives, young professionals, and farmers.