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The thinking behind the system: long-form pieces on what it takes to understand land at depth, plus the data and methods behind the Land Health System.
Clare Hill is a regenerative farmer, transition coach and advisor. Her own Planton Court Farm has moved from Land Health Level 5 to Level 6 on the EcoIntel Land Health Score since she took it on.
Digital Product Passports are arriving with a nature field nobody can fill. Here is why the land-condition attribute has been empty, what it takes to make one a buyer or a software agent can independently re-check, and how a farm, grower or timber business attaches one to what it sells.
EcoIntel builds every map layer of your farm and puts them in one place: winter hillshade, topographic wetness, slope, aspect, keyline zones and the Land Health Score over time. Read two or three layers together and you see things a single map never shows.
A soil core taken today cannot tell you where the land was five years ago. Here is how a satellite record reads a farm's ecosystem condition backwards to 2018, why an assessment tool with rigorous cross-checks beats a single accredited number, and why the same read serves the farmer, the buyer, the insurer and the bank.
Organic, pasture-fed and every other standard audits how a farm is run. Almost none of them measures what the land actually does. Here is why the in-principle argument about good and bad farming cannot be won, and how long-range ecosystem condition monitoring settles the real question: did this land, under this management, improve?
Every major nature-disclosure framework now places ecosystem condition near the centre of nature reporting, and none of them says how to measure it. Here is what ecosystem condition means, the science of turning it into a number, and how EcoIntel's Land Health Score supplies that metric from satellite for every parcel, every year, back to 2018.
eDNA names the species; satellite condition data reads the habitat they live in. Here is how pairing the two gives nature-condition disclosure and reporting the right tools: targeted sampling, habitat context, continuous monitoring, and a biodiversity programme a portfolio can actually afford.
TNFD, the CSRD's ESRS E4 and GRI all require you to disclose ecosystem condition, then leave the metric undefined. Here is how a satellite-derived condition score fills that gap across the nature-disclosure frameworks, for every parcel and every year since 2018.
Land health is how well a landscape's natural systems are working. Learn what it means, why it is rarely measured, and how EcoIntel measures it from space.
Regenerative, agroecological, organic, biodynamic, nature-based, conservation, restorative, rewilding. Nature-positive, carbon-positive farming goes by many names. This is the one thing they all share: the power of helping every practitioner understand their land better.
In March 2026 England published its first Land Use Framework. It is not a law you comply with. It is a strategy that changes how land decisions get made and where public money flows. Here is what it is, what it is not, and why it matters even though it is not mandatory.
The EU's big sustainability law won't land on most farms directly, but it reaches them anyway, through the value chain. Here is exactly how CSRD touches farming, who is really in scope, and the one change that works in a farm's favour.
A single carbon number is a hypothesis. EcoIntel cross-checks every parcel's pipeline estimate against fourteen authoritative public reference datasets and publishes the disagreements. Here is what the references are, why each is in the panel, and what the whole arrangement is for.
EcoIntel is an ADP (Assessment, Diagnostics, Practical guidance), not an MRV. The two answer different questions, serve different audiences, and work best together. Here is exactly what we do that MRV typically does not, and how the two systems fit.
The gap that has not closed despite the knowledge being there is not a gap of intent or information. It is the gap between general knowledge and specific ground. Closing it is what EcoIntel was built for.
Why soil carbon, species counts and carbon flux can't tell you if your land is improving. And how four leading indicators do. The diagnostic logic behind EcoIntel's Land Health Score.
