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.
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.
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.
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