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 WBCSD and Boston Consulting Group (BCG), 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
One of ILA’s first priorities was to diagnose the current state of climate-smart agriculture in India. This meant 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. This evidence base informed the ‘India Landscape Accelerator Launchpad: A Practical Guide for Partnerships, Investment, and Impact‘, which translates lessons from existing programs into practical pathways for implementation, collaboration, and scale.
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.
A Practical Guide to Scaling Climate-Smart Agriculture in India
As part of its ambition to scale CSA in India, ILA developed the ‘India Landscape Accelerator Launchpad: A Practical Guide for Partnerships, Investment, and Impact’. Drawing on insights from 80+ CSA programs and consultations with 30+ companies and experts across the agriculture value chain, the Launchpad brings together evidence and collective experience to highlight best practices in program design, identify persistent barriers to scale, and show how organizations can strengthen and expand their efforts to accelerate impact.
The Launchpad provides a shared evidence base and practical starting point for action, helping organizations build on existing knowledge rather than starting from scratch. It offers proven approaches, implementation pathways and actionable recommendations across farmer engagement, program delivery, partnerships, financing and measurement, helping organisations strengthen existing programs, inform new initiatives, and identify opportunities for collaboration and co-investment.
The ‘India Landscape Accelerator Launchpad: A Practical Guide for Partnerships, Investment, and Impact’ can be downloaded here.
What’s next
Building on the foundations established in 2026, ILA is shifting its focus from shared learning to collective action. The next phase will concentrate on two key levers for scale: advancing shared and cost-efficient MRV approaches that can reduce duplication and strengthen measurement, and identifying state-level co-investment opportunities that enable companies, government and partners to align resources and scale action in priority agricultural landscapes.
