The power of landscape initiatives lies in aligning interests and priorities of key stakeholders, including local communities, practitioners, market actors, and local governments around collective goals, actions, and investment so that they are better able to finance and address the system conditions needed to achieve long-term sustainability impacts at a landscape scale.

With increasing interest and engagement in landscape initiatives, it is critical that all stakeholders have a simple and consistent
understanding of the core elements of a mature landscape initiative. Twenty leading landscape practitioner organisations have come together to agree those core criteria and accompanying sub-criteria, as well as present six ways in which they can be used.