7th GLF Investment Case Symposium

How can we raise $200 billion a year for biodiversity and climate?  From 21 October to 1 November 2024, global leaders gathered in Cali, Colombia, for the 2024 UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16), tackling critical issues like ecosystem protection, climate action, and food security. The 7th GLF Investment Case Symposium, the largest sustainable finance event in the Global South, explored how to fund these efforts, including the role of emerging tech like Artificial Intelligence (AI) in finding innovative solutions.

About this session

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This presentation encapsulates the highlights of the Landscape Leadership Camp held in Nairobi, Kenya, from 14–16 September 2024. Bringing together 60 exceptional young leaders from across Africa and beyond, the event focused on justice-driven landscape approaches for a greener future. Through workshops, panels, and field visits, participants collaborated to tackle complex challenges and craft transformative solutions for sustainable development.

Join 1M+ youth on the Youth in Landscapes Initiative, driving change for people and landscapes worldwide!

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How is sustainable rice produced?

The rice value chain includes several key stages, starting with essential inputs like fertilizers, seeds and machinery. These resources are crucial for efficient cultivation, which involves planting, growing and harvesting high-quality rice.

Once harvested, rice is aggregated, processed, packaged and stored before being distributed to retailers by wholesalers such as supermarkets and retailers.

Finally, rice is consumed in homes and restaurants.

The rice value chain is closely linked with sectors like water, environment, infrastructure, energy and transport, and it’s important to work across sectors to green this vital commodity.

The FOLUR Impact Program collaborates globally to transform food systems through sustainable value chains for eight commodities across 27 countries. Specifically, the program has rice projects in China, India, Indonesia, Tanzania, Thailand and Vietnam. These projects implement sustainable rice production at a landscape level, involving all actors along the value chain. In practice, this involves connecting with farmers, producer organizations, women – who often contribute substantially to rice production – and governments to achieve a multi-stakeholder approach.

Resources

• RICE+ hub for regenerative ricescapes – Mission paper

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PILA benefits 

✓ Foster country ownership and commitment

✓ Leverage and strengthen existing country processes and capacities

✓ Develop participatory Integrated Landscape Management Plan (ILMP) for

deforestation-free commodities and agroecological food system transformation

✓ Tap into “One-FAO” integrated technical package and technical agency

support:

Facilitated methodology for multi-stakeholder planning process with a policy focus and

mainstreamed agroecological principles and sustainable standards

Multi-dimensional evaluation of the farms sustainability performance

PILA geospatial platform and integrated (GIS-field survey) landscape assessment

Analysis of the enabling environment, including tenure rights and transformative

governance

Restoration potential mapping, including data on costs and benefits of ecosystem

restoration,

Assessment and empowerment of forest and farm producer organizations

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