Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) offers transformative potential for India by increasing farmer income, strengthening value chain resilience, and contributing to environmental benefits, including reduced greenhouse gas emissions. However, unlocking this potential requires coordinated, landscape-level action and blended financing to address systemic barriers such as misaligned incentives along the value chain, measurement and verification bottlenecks, and a fragmented policy and financing landscape.
In response to this need, the India Landscape Accelerator (ILA) was launched as a private sector-driven and multistakeholder platform under the COP28 Action Agenda on Regenerative Landscapes (AARL). Its core mission is to catalyze investments to accelerate the transformation of key Indian agricultural states and landscapes towards more productive, climate-smart, and resilient agri-food systems.
Co-chaired by High Level Champions, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and WBCSD – with support from the COP Presidency – ILA convenes leading corporates, financial institutions, governments, and on-the-ground implementers to jointly identify, structure, and scale bankable CSA and regenerative agriculture landscapes.
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Our approach
Formally launched in February 2026 during the inaugural Mumbai Climate Week, the ILA has aligned stakeholders around a shared mission to move beyond farm-level pilots toward scale, by linking action to district and state planning, existing value chain programs, and government priorities and co‑funding opportunities. WBCSD, in collaboration with BCG, serves as a convener, bringing together companies, financiers, delivery partners, NGOs, and governments around shared, state-level priorities to accelerate impact.
Diagnosing current state of CSA
The ILA’s first priority is to diagnose the current state of climate-smart and regenerative agriculture programs in India. This means understanding what has already been built across leading CSA programs, what has enabled or constrained scale, and what elements are replicable to inform ILA design. The outcome will be a live, shared view of CSA and regenerative agriculture programs, delivery partners, and indicative public and private funding flows across India.
Building multi-stakeholder alignment
Leveraging this intelligence layer, the ILA will focus on building multi-stakeholder alignment around investable solutions and harmonized MRV at state- and landscape-level. While India has significant CSA activity and emerging successes, challenges remain in collaboration, scaling, and consistent measurement across programs. The ILA therefore prioritizes collaboration with existing initiatives to replicate and scale what works at lower cost and faster speed, supporting the development of common systems, data, metrics, and tools that can enable credible MRV and unlock financing.
Mobilizing public-private partnerships
The ILA will catalyze public-private coordination to finance and activate transitions in key landscapes, enabled by credible outcome-based MRV that accelerates program scale-up. A structured socialization phase will engage state governments, MDBs, corporate partners, financial institutions, and implementation partners to refine ILA collective solutions, secure formal backing, and align incentives.
What’s next
In 2026, the ILA has established itself as an action-oriented platform that drives coordinated investment and accelerates place-based systemic change in India’s priority agricultural states and landscapes. Its approach will prioritize member interest and active value chains and geographies, existing programs already operating at scale, and landscapes where government engagement and co-investment are feasible.
