Our Strategy
Legado’s mission is to protect the world’s most threatened mountain ecosystems by working hand in hand with the people who call them home. Our strategy to achieve our mission involves working across the following four pillars:
LEADERSHIP
We partner with local mountain people to define what it is they want to create in their individual futures, and in the future for their communities, accelerating leadership and using behavior change science to do it.
FOOD SECURITY
We create viable alternatives for mountain people to make a living and feed their families– through deep agricultural support creating better crops, stronger value chains, and more dependable food and income.
OWNERSHIP
We support mountain communities to define and defend their own biodiversity values– water provisioning, pollination, carbon sequestration and more.
GUARDIANSHIP
We work with mountain communities in land titling and community conservation opportunities so that they can be the rightful guardians of their futures.