Frequently Asked Questions

Have questions about manto and what we do?

Here you’ll find some of the most common questions and answers about our work. Take a look—some might help illustrate how regeneration looks in practice.

manto is the only developer of nature-based solutions that combines expertise in social cohesion processes, innovative regenerative finance models, and territorial design with communities.

Projects are facilitated from start to finish—from diagnosis to implementation, monitoring, and impact communication—integrating all services within one platform.

In a context where companies face new climate regulations, traceability demands, and risks across their value chains, manto stands as a key ally to activate solutions that generate real and shared impact.

Nature-based solutions restore or emulate natural processes to address social, climate, and production challenges.

Applied to agricultural, livestock, or forestry systems, they help regenerate soils, conserve water, restore biodiversity, and strengthen community resilience, while also generating measurable economic benefits

Regenerative transitions are gradual processes of transformation within agri-productive systems that integrate both technical innovation (practices, technologies, management) and institutional innovation (governance, policy, social agreements).

They begin with a systems analysis to identify risks, limits, and opportunities, progressing through four phases:

  1. Eco-efficiency: optimizing production processes to reduce impacts without altering system structure.
  2. Input substitution: replacing chemical inputs with bio-based alternatives and regenerative practices.
  3. System redesign: reshaping the agroecosystem as a whole to make it resilient, diversified, and restorative.
  4. Agro-regenerative landscape: integrating multiple regenerative systems within an ecologically, socially, and institutionally connected territory.

This process requires coordination across multiple scales and actors, and consolidates once emerging innovations are embedded in dominant production and consumption systems.

Yes. Through Aggregated Programs, small producers join collective projects under shared conditions.

This approach reduces costs, eases access to voluntary markets, and ensures an equitable distribution of benefits among all participants, including investors, developers, and producers.

A Bioregional Aggregation Program groups dispersed regenerative projects within the same bioregion under shared management and territorial conditions.

It helps reduce monitoring costs through MRV technologies (Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification), allows collective access to incentives, and scales regenerative impact, ensuring operational efficiency and financial viability for participants.

manto combines purpose and impact with a regenerative business model.

Unlike a civil society organization, manto designs financially sustainable programs where communities, companies, and investors co-create shared value.

The focus is on building regenerative economic ecosystems, not relying on external donations.

Insetting allows companies to regenerate the territories their supply chains depend on, reduce emissions, secure sourcing, and strengthen relationships with producers.

manto designs insetting projects that generate impact from the root, combining environmental, social, and economic benefits.

By adopting regenerative practices, producers improve soil health, increase productivity, reduce climate risks, and access additional income through ecosystem services.

They also strengthen their technical capacities and voice within value chains.

Shared Narratives is a methodology that fosters co-creation among territorial actors, prioritizing the voices and lived experience of those who inhabit and work the land.

It integrates empathy, environmental justice, and social and technological tools to design context-based solutions tailored to each local reality.

Impact is monitored through a combination of technological and field-based tools: satellite imagery, artificial intelligence, artificial neural networks, drones, and on-site sampling.

All data feeds into MRV systems (Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification) aligned with international standards—ensuring traceability, credibility, and transparency.

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