Dr. Peter Holmgren, Director General of CIFOR, presented options for investing in sustainable rural development at the Business for the Environment Global Summit in Delhi, India on 16 April 2013.

1. Livelihoods, income Food and nutrition Green growth
Investing in Sustainable Landscapes for Green Returns
Dr. Peter Holmgren, Director General CIFOR
New Delhi, 16 April 2013
Climate change Biodiversity Agriculture, resilience

3. 100 years

5. What do we need to make it work?
 Understand basic objectives for sustainable landscapes
• …and how to measure progress at reasonable cost
 Understand return opportunities from landscapes
• …and the associated risks
 Commitment from public sector to implement rule of law
• …and provide (initial) support to governance, risk
management and research
 Accept that farmers and producers are in charge
• ..their priorities will lead to sustainable landscapes (or not)
 Finance that benefits large-scale investors as well as
small-scale producers
• …taking all of the above into account

6. Proposition 1:
This is a Sustainable Landscape.
Keep it simple!

7. Landscape objectives

8. Landscape objectives & performance measures

9. Important properties
• Measureable
• Easy to understand
• Applicable everywhere
• Applicable on any scale
• Relevant to
‐ Sustainable development
‐ Climate change
‐ Food security
‐ Investment / Green growth
All measures stable or improving = Sustainable Landscape

10. Proposition 2:
Investments in Sustainable Landscapes
can contribute dramatically
to meeting development goals

11. Perspectives
 Investor:
• There is a lot of capital ready for good investment
propositions that also contribute to sustainable
development
 Farmers / Producers:
• Access to long-term, affordable and reliable capital is a
major limiting factor for our enterprises
 Public sector:
• Desrire to use public funds to steer investments to
generate public goods and sustainable development

12. Some perceptions that hinder
 ”Land use profits are bad for the environment.”
 ”Land use profits are bad for local people.”
• ”Agrobusiness will take over.”
 ”Farmers are farmers.”
 ”Food prices must be kept down.”
 ”How can we feed the world?.”
 Sector silos

13. Some ideas that help
 Green growth with equity
 Need for climate change adaptation and mitigation
 Trade
 Ethical considerations in investments

14. Proposition 3:
It is possible.
But requires scale.

15. Returns and Risk management

16. Affordable verification
Monitoring of
sustainability
outcomes at
aggregated levels

17. Effective use of public funds
Strengthen governance frameworks
• Rule of law
Protection fund for investors
Piloting loans
Research

18. What next?
 Research and development
• CIFOR, The Munden Project, ICRAF, Ateneo
School of Government, Chatham House
 More findings on the different components during
2013
• Portfolio approach
• Sustainability verification approach
• Governance
 Piloting from 2014

19. Vision
CIFOR vision:
Forests (and Landscapes) on the agenda – their values recognized
Decisions that influence forests and people supported by solid
science and principles of good governance