Complement your landscape action plan with a finance strategy and supercharge transformation. LIFT is a process for helping you and your colleagues develop a strategy for mobilizing investment, so you can have confidence your action plan will make an impact.
In the context of landscape investments, there’s a few main types of risk which concern people and organisations enough to motivate them to make an investment to preserve financial returns.
There is no single reason for a company, NGO or government agency to engage in a landscape partnership. The value depends on the particular farmer, business or organization’s place in a supply chain, their dependence on long-term resources and relations in the landscape, and whether the landscape challenges that they face can be adequately addressed on their own.
Characteristics of landscape investments that explicitly consider interactions and inter-dependencies among land management units and investments, “integrated landscape investments,” are defined in the list in this post.
There are many different mechanisms which enable capital to flow across landscapes. Mechanisms are different from sources of capital and objectives of capital. There are two main categories of mechanism: Debt and Equity.
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