Presentation by Seth Shames, Director of Policy and Markets at EcoAgriculture Partners, on December 5th, 2015 at the Global Landscapes Forum in Paris. The presentation summarizes the key points of a new white paper: Scaling Up Investment & Finance for Integrated Landscape Management: Challenges & Innovations. Find the paper here: http://bit.ly/1NpLKc8 The paper describes the current flows of finance and investment into landscapes and how shifts in these patterns both by donors/investors and by landscape managers could improve investment outcomes for people and nature.

1. Global Landscapes Forum
FOR INTEGRATED
LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT
FINANCE
Paris, Dec 5, 2015
Seth Shames, EcoAgriculture Partners

2. ILM OPTIMIZES THE LANDSCAPE BENEFITS FOR A
VARIETY OF STAKEHOLDERS
Source: Gross and Wertz 2015

3. ILM CAN REDUCE RISKS, MAKING
INVESTMENTS MORE SUCCESSFUL
Source: Gross and Wertz 2015

4. DEVELOPING THIS PAPER

6. KEYCHALLENGESANDEMERGINGSOLUTIONSFOR
FINANCINGINTEGRATEDLANDSCAPEINVESTMENTS
• Incorporating landscape criteria
• Mitigating investment risk
• Engagement in landscape partnerships
• Linking financial flows within landscapes
• Monitoring multiple outcomes

7. RECOMMENDATIONSTOADVANCE
INVESTMENTANDFINANCEFORILM
• Design standards and monitoring systems
• Establish landscape investment incubators
• Establish brokering services for integrated
landscape deals
• Incorporate integrated landscape principles
into public finance
• Create frameworks for financing ILM within
national SDG and green growth strategies

8. To download the paper,
peoplefoodandnature.org
For more information, please
contact:
sshames@ecoagriculture.org