What is Nature, Risk and Resilience Reporting?
What is Nature, Risk and Resilience Reporting?
Nature Reporting is a tool by Land App, to support supply-chains to provide the farmers that they depend on with greater support, insights about their farming, and to prepare for and access future funding opportunities through Land App’s mapping, planning and collaboration tools.
This provides farmers with in-depth insights about farm resilience and nature impacts, and businesses with a greater understanding of the extent and breadth of the farms they work with. Nature Reporting helps to guide business strategies to provide better support for farmers, to increase farm resilience and biodiversity.
The tool supports farms to map the current state of their farm's habitats and develop future-focused Land Management Plans, which will encourage practices that improve biodiversity, soil health, and water management. These plans will help farmers transition toward more nature-friendly agriculture.
The tool, produced by Land App, enables reporting on over 68 metrics covering Farm Habitat Health (e.g. Integrated Pest Management and Habitat connectedness), Regenerative Agriculture (e.g. Earth Observation on the percentage of cropped land with continuous winter cover), Water Pollution (e.g. percentage of productive land within poor/moderate/good WFD classifications and percentage of cropped land less than 12m from a watercourse), Risk (e.g. percentage area within flood zones) and Existing Scheme uptake (e.g. Countryside Stewardship agreements).
What benefits are there for your farming business?
What benefits are there for your farming business?
By engaging with Nature Reporting and Land App; it opens up the following opportunities:
A clean Baseline Habitat Assessment of your farm (widely used and requested by retailers, processors, banks, advisors, and landscape projects such as farm clusters and Landscape Recovery projects).
Learn how to use Land App to build future Land Management Plans
NOTE: The boundary of your farm allows the Land App team to better understand what schemes or funding routes your farm could take, and farmers are being notified of opportunities. For example, getting notifed of new Government Schemes, or accessing private funding (see JLP Funds £500,000 to nine farmers in the Project with Land App: https://www.jlpjobs.com/blog/waitrose-backs-british-farmers-to-introduce-low-carbon-farming-projects/)
Access to the Land App mapping software and the ability to collaborate on and gain greater control of the maps and plans created for you by the land agents and advisors you work with.
A follow-up “Nature, Risk and Resilience Report” from Land App, showing your scores.
For certain projects, access to expert advice from Land App’s expert network of Accredited Professionals.
What are the benefits for the businesses investing in the Nature Reporting projects?
What are the benefits for the businesses investing in the Nature Reporting projects?
Demonstrate public commitments for improvement to land-use and nature.
Provides a baseline for evidence-based progress of habitat and farm resilience improvements within the supply chain.
Increased understanding of their UK supply chains and greater capacity to engage and support farmers through the provision of advice and targeted support.
Understanding what stories can be told to customers about the work in a wider landscape.
Understanding where in the supply chain there is the opportunity for investing in farm-scale and landscape scale resilience.
How is the data being used by Retailers and Banks?
How is the data being used by Retailers and Banks?
The data shared with retailers and other corporates are the "Nature, Risk and Resilience" scores. No "mapped" data is shared (e.g. no maps showing your farm boundary, baseline habitats or land management plan). Instead, we share with your consent (through the "Land Declaration Form" a suite of metrics calculated from your maps.
Here are some live examples from these customers of where the data is contributing:
Sainsbury's
Waitrose
ASDA
ASDA's biodiversity strategy, including a trial launched with Land App, in partnership with the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership - Read more
Oxbury Bank
Utilising our system for their 2024 Natural Capital Report to quantify habitat health and risks - Read more
Why are Land Management Plans useful?
Why are Land Management Plans useful?
In Land App, land managers can draw "Land Management Plans" - these act as a future view of the ideas and plans of what *could* be created or implemented. They do not act as a "guarantee" that these will happen (e.g. no recipient of the Land Management Plans can "force" or hold to account the plan).
Instead, they provide the following uses:
A "wishlist" of changes that the holding is considering. This provides the Land App software with an idea of the types of interventions that this holding is considering, therefore the map owner may get notified if there are funding schemes that can support the plan becoming a reality.
For example, North Lingy Moor drew a simple Agroforestry scheme, and Land App worked with Waitrose to make this a reality: https://thelandapp.com/2025/05/21/north-lingy-moor-farm-how-one-beef-farmer-is-demonstrating-the-power-of-nature-friendly-farming/
Provides an "uplift" score; by comparing the Baseline to the future Land Management Plan, the Nature Reporting scores show a change IF the plan were to be implement. This acts as a "what if" view of the scores.
For example, by adding a new feature (such as a pond or a new margin), the uplift scores will show the potential improvements that farm will see if the plan becomes a reality.