Healthy, Sustainable Food, Water & Fisheries Sector Focus
Our main investors are focused on financing construction-ready projects across all asset classes, structures and geographies in food and agriculture, farming, value/supply chain (including ag inputs, fisheries, food harvesting and processing), and water-related arenas. Together we finance sustainable food systems and water conservation, management, reclamation, treatment/desalination, ocean health, water and seafood production, distribution and efficiency projects. See below for agriculture and food-related sectors, which are often interrelated, as is energy, in a food/water/energy matrix.
Water projects include technologies for purifying/filtering or de-watering polluted or contaminated sources as well as desalination through advanced electrolysis, distillation or reverse osmosis, or water efficiency (not wasting water in the first place is arguably the most valuable form of “production”).
Regenerative agriculture includes managed grazing of livestock (although we support increased plant-based diets, the notion of making “meats” in a lab is not yet appealing to most of us), no till or minimum tillage such as via silvopasture, agroforestry, afforestation, reforestation, restoration of ocean health and fisheries, mangroves (fish nurseries), and water-efficient landscaping practices. Fundamental technology innovation is more often venture-based, but large-scale projects or project portfolios may be eligible.
Climate Smart Solutions
In developed economies, we have a bias toward disruptive innovations, but technically and financially well-supported “climate finance” projects worldwide can be qualified. If your project will help us reach UN SDG’s 2030 targets of regenerating millions of acres/hectares through these sound practices, we would be particularly interested. Carbon credits and offsets appear to have taken hold, finally, even in voluntary markets, sometimes tied to purchasers seeking them for ESG reasons, which is helping boost financial attractiveness of these sectors.
Wastewater Treatment Plant, Prague
Financially sound projects deliver adequate returns for equity investors and cash flow for lenders, with credit-worthy parties and counterparties, experienced teams and adequate investment/commitment by the principals, where the main evidence that informs this requirement is through available documentation.
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