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Guideline to Navigate and Register in The Land Finance Hub

Author: Dyah Puspitaloka, D. Andrew Wardell, Rudy Tomasoa, Mahesa Elba, Yahya Sampurna, Michael A. Brady

Published year: 2023

Category: Guidelines & Toolkits

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Abstract: The Land Finance Hub is a learning hub for knowledge products and tools, capacity development and a collaborative platform. The Hub aims to connect agriculture and forestry-based MSMEs with investor and financial institutions. It is intended to showcase MSMEs profiles and financing projects, advance MSMEs capacity and access to information and knowledge products on green finance and business. The Hub development is made possible through the Green Finance for Sustainable Landscapes (GF4SL) project where CIFOR is an implementing partner. The project and the Hub seek to address barriers to sustainable financing and support sustainability transitioning of commodity production and land use.

LandFinanceHub is designed to facilitate the interaction between MSME which need funding with Financier that are looking for potential clients and their forestry and agriculture projects in the global south to be financed. The main objective of LandFinanceHub is to increase the flow of finance to deforestation-free commodity production and sustainable land use. The Hub also contains training materials and toolkits for the benefits of MSMEs and Financiers. The LandFinanceHub has been developed through the Green Finance For Sustainable Landscape Project which is jointly managed by United Nation Environment Program Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) with funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF).