Your supply chain is only as resilient as its natural capital
Climate shifts, soil degradation and nature loss are already reshaping ingredient costs and supply reliability. Margins are eroded season by season through lower yields, higher input needs and growing reformulation risk.
Yet many risk models still focus on emissions and prices alone, missing what is changing in soil function, water availability and biodiversity across sourcing regions.
With NCVM, you can finally see how the condition of the landscapes you depend on is affecting today’s performance – and where tomorrow’s risks are quietly forming.
Natural Capital Management and Valuation (NCVM)
Turn hidden nature risk into resilient, profitable farms and higher-value supply chains
Introducing Natural Capital Management and Valuation (NCVM)
NCVM – Natural Capital Management and Valuation – is Trinity’s decision support module for linking the health of natural capital to commercial performance. Built on our Sandy AI platform and grounded in peer-reviewed science and robust agronomy, NCVM gives procurement, sustainability, product and finance teams a shared, defensible basis for action.
It brings together multiple data inputs – remote sensing, farm and supplier records, field measurements and public datasets – to minimise burden on growers while providing a single, consistent view of risk and opportunity across crops, regions and suppliers.
Quantify how soil, water and biodiversity condition are influencing cost, yield, quality and shelf risk.
Reveal where degradation is inflating costs or threatening security of supply – and where restoration can create value.
Provide one global source of truth with local nuance, so growers and regions are compared fairly.
Translate science into clear, financially relevant priorities that teams can act on week in, week out.
How NCVM works
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NCVM maps the condition and trajectory of natural capital across your sourcing landscapes: which farms and regions are resilient, which are trending to risk, and why. It highlights where issues such as erosion, water loss, biodiversity decline or inefficient nitrogen use are affecting margins, yields, quality or shelf reliability.
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Scenario analysis enables you to compare practices, crops, regions and supplier programmes, and to understand the cost of inaction versus the value of acting. You can design targeted interventions – from regenerative practice support to co-developed innovation projects – where the gains in resilience, quality or emissions reduction are greatest.
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NCVM tracks progress over time, linking changes in natural capital to business outcomes such as supply stability, reformulation risk, Scope 3 trajectories, audit burden, and access to premium markets. It provides the evidence base for credible claims and reporting, while also making benefits visible to growers and communities.
For growers and suppliers
Growers and suppliers know their land does more than produce crops – it carries business value, family legacy and future opportunity. NCVM, delivered through Sandy, helps farmers see the full picture of what their land is really worth today and how its natural assets are likely to perform over the next five to ten years.
It reveals hidden risks and opportunities at field level, so farmers can act before problems become costly. This can mean lower input needs, access to new environmental incentives, higher asset values and stronger, longer-term relationships with buyers.
With the farmer’s permission, these insights also help buyers and processors understand and reward good stewardship through co-investment, differentiated contracts or recognition in sourcing programmes. Traceability becomes an asset – clear, auditable evidence of what growers are doing well, not just another paperwork requirement.
For brands, retailers and food manufacturers
For corporate sustainability, procurement and finance teams, NCVM turns disparate data into a single, decision-ready view of risk and opportunity across the supply chain. It supports outcome-based sourcing strategies that protect shelf availability, reduce volatility and enable credible, nature-positive growth.
More resilient ingredient supply through better visibility of at-risk crops, regions and suppliers.
Reduced reformulation and out-of-stock risk by linking nature condition directly to shelf security and product quality.
Verifiable Scope 3 progress and nature outcomes, with methods aligned to recognised frameworks.
Lower audit and reporting burden, thanks to a shared, trusted dataset and consistent analytics.
Better-targeted co-investment with suppliers, focusing programme spend where it delivers the highest returns.
Make nature your edge
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NCVM helps you move beyond generic sustainability reporting to uncover the real story beneath your supply chain – where natural capital is eroding value, where it is building resilience, and where targeted action can deliver the fastest, most cost-effective gains for everyone involved.