Amazonia Impact Fund I
Project Developer
- Amazonia Impact Ventures
Size
- Large
- (25000000)
Maturity stage
- Mature for investment
Country
- Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil
Financing mechanism
Contact
Aldo Soto
asoto@impvholdings.com
Link
Environmental benefits
Amazonia Impact Ventures invests directly in the forest stewards and ecopreneurs, promoting forest protection and restoration and contributing to climate mitigation and adaptation.
Investing in forest-based value chains increases the value of standing forests, reducing the risk of deforestation while improving communities’ livelihoods.
Investing in enterprises transitioning to deforestation-free supply chains helps to shift commodities away from deforestation while supporting producers to grow sustainably.
Investing in ecopreneurs enables innovative solutions to emerge and address the Amazon’s main challenges.
We expect to improve land use of 1’000,000 ha of forest and agricultural lands by incentivising conservation, reducing deforestation, restoring ecosystems and planting 5’000,000 trees in agroforestry systems and degraded lands.
Community benefits
Amazonia Impact Ventures invests in indigenous organisations, smallholder farmers cooperatives and other community-led enterprises, which reach thousands of small producers and communities that live and depend on the forest and are usually excluded from the financial sector and marginalised.
We expect to reach 50+ sustainable small and medium and emergent enterprises, producers and indigenous’ organisations, 20,000+ producers, improving the livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in the Amazon.
Business model
This is a $25M impact-linked debt fund that will be capitalised with catalytic capital and notes from private investors. The fund will issue debt to clients (indigenous and smallholder farmers’ enterprises and private SMEs) at competitive rates, with rebates for climate & social impact. Ticket size: US$ 50K – US$ 1M. A sidecar T.A. facility will channel grant resources to fund investees to deepen impact into IPLC. Lending operations will be based out of Lima, Peru, covering the Amazon region.