9 October, 2026

What do farm walks, podcasts and banks have in common? Increasingly, quite a lot.

Lloyds has partnered with the Nature Friendly Farming Network to help farmers across the UK share practical experience of nature-friendly farming. Through farm walks, peer-to-peer events, webinars and podcasts, the emphasis is refreshingly hands-on: farmers learning from farmers about how to improve nature while building more resilient and profitable businesses.

The partnership is the latest addition to Lloyds’ growing body of work on regenerative agriculture. Earlier this year, Lloyds partnered with Wildfarmed to launch the Food and Nature Resilience Fund, a mechanism designed to accelerate the transition of the UK’s arable farmland to regenerative agriculture. Lloyds has also published its Farming with Nature report, emphasising the importance of using robust, location-specific data to identify where nature-friendly practices can deliver the greatest environmental and commercial benefits for farmers.

And Lloyds is not alone. Since 2023, NatWest has partnered with WWF to support a more sustainable transition across the UK food and agricultural sectors. Together, they have engaged dairy farmers and government in England and Wales to understand what is preventing change. Their work highlighted a fundamental challenge: farmers are often expected to shoulder a disproportionate share of the cost and risk, despite the benefits extending across food businesses, retailers, banks and wider society.

That insight has also informed Routes to Regen, which brought NatWest and Lloyds together with Barclays, HSBC and businesses from across the food and insurance sectors. The pilot gave 100 farmers in the East of England access to practical support, from discounted cover-crop and pollinator seed to soil sampling, business planning, demonstration days and routes to crop premiums.

Farmers will ultimately shape the future of farming. But banks can help ensure they have the finance, support and incentives to make working with nature a viable business choice, and shape a system that supports that.

By Charlotte Pounder