Presentation by EcoAgriculture Partners Seth Shames on how African integrated landscape initiatives are finding financial resources, and which organizations and institutions are financing them.

1. Financing Integrated
Landscape Investments in
Africa
Seth Shames, EcoAgriculture Partners
June 2, 2014
World Agroforestry Centre, Nairobi

2. Types of Landscape Investments

3. Potential Sources of ILM Finance
• Increased public investment
• Foreign direct investment (FDI)
• Impact investment
• Payments for Ecosystem Services
• Climate Finance
• Conditional Loans
Photo: Danie van der Merwe

4. Challenges for ILM Finance
Enabling investments
• Public sector siloes limit integration
• Coordination of integrated landscape
initiatives is often underfunded
• Market access, infrastructure and agriculture
research barriers
• Over-dependence on donor funding
Photo: Anne Wangalachi, CIMMYT

5. Challenges for ILM Finance
Asset investments
• Short time horizons
• Mismatch between investment stake and size of
investment opportunities
• Investment risk is high
• Potential for deleterious agricultural investment

6. Actions
• Coordinate public sector funds for enabling
investments
• Prioritize donor coordination with national
government
• Define and enforce basic guidelines on FDI
• Develop innovative investment platforms and
mechanisms
Photo: CIMMYT

7. Springboards for Action
• National policymakers working across sectors
• GM continuing to support the development of
integrated financing mechanisms
• Agro-industrial investment corridors organizers
leading on investment guidelines
• Investment agencies acquiring knowledge and to
screen FDI
• The GEF and other donors playing a leading role
in encouraging multi-objective investments
Photo: Eloise Phillips, CIMMYT