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.
Struggling with what makes a business or project “bankable?” Put yourself in the shoes of your local banker in this LIFT lesson from Gerhard Mulder.
One simple way to use an investment to generate additional revenue is to use the resources to gain access to a new market for selling goods or services. Seth Shames provides examples and more in this video post.
Are you wondering, what is blended finance? And how can you get some? Pooja Munshi is here to help.
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.
You and your landscape partners have identified a set of investment priorities. Now, you’ve got to figure out who would be interested in providing capital to each project. Since each project is different, and has a different business case, a different type of investor, with different priorities, will be interested in each one.
Landscape investments can generate financial value in four main ways: 1. Increasing revenue within a currently operating market
2. Accessing new markets
3. Reducing business risks (i.e. lowering overall cost of capital)
4. Reducing business costs. This post discusses the first pathway.
You have to show the business case! Have you ever heard that before? More and more, investors demand to see the financial sustainability and revenue-generating potential of their investments, even if they intend to have social and environmental impacts as well.
Want to learn all you need to know to feel like a LIFT wizard, in one go? Start with the Landscape Academy.
In this post, you’re going to learn about making an investment proposition more attractive for an investor.
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