IDH Initiative for Sustainable Landscapes
Paris, December 5th 2015
GLF session: Investing in Integrated Landscape Management for the SDGs

18 supply chains 11 landscapes
IDH Public private partnership facility
• 40 million Euro investment
capital annually
• Funded by Dutch, Swiss
Danish and Norwegian ODA
• Convene - Cofund – Learn

• Landscape initiative focused on key commodity sourcing landscapes;
• Multi-stakeholder governance structure as an enabler for the investments
protection and
restoration
resource efficient
productivity increase
multi-stakeholder
governance
Initiative for Sustainable Land Landscapes
(ISLA)
Investment in:

Rationale
• Direct involvement of land-users is crucial to achieve landscape
conservation and restoration targets;
• Willingness and interest to move from a “command and control” agenda
into “positive business opportunity” agenda.
• Business case in smartly combining production and protection, land
available for conservation, community and commercial goals
• Mix of policy, finance and market incentives to catalyse the land-use
transformation

Landscape finance
Examples:
• Mato Grosso (Brazil) - investments in cattle intensification, availing land for forest
code compliance;
• WiderTai forest region (CDI)- Creating a value of forest to farmers, via agro
forestry, replanting of bufferzone;
• Kenya – bufferzone planting and dairy farming as part of production – protection
agreement.
Financial sector partners:
• Althelia
• Livelihoods Fund
• World Bank Biocarbon Fund and Forest Investment Fund
• Land Degradation Neutrality Fund
• FMO
• Rabobank
• IDH private sector partners

Challenges and emerging insights
• Coalition for integrated action aligns and leverages on existing resources, which is powerful
• Production protection investment case; different types of finance needed
• Business cases for resource efficiency; may need dedicated funds, de-risking, dedicated individuals
• Protection and restauration business case; legal compliance, buyer requirements?
• Innovation and investment in viable public-private-civil models for improved governance is key
• Creating enabling structure and pipeline is challenging and takes time.We expect most investments
only to be possible in year 3 or 4 of ISLA

Reach out for more information
We exchange and share learnings in
partnership with the following organizations
www.idhsustainabletrade.com
www.landscapesinitiative.com
GLF - 5 dec 2015 – nienke stam
stam@idhsustainabletrade.com