Descriptions

This project seeks to promote a paradigmatic shift towards Transformative Land Investment (TLI). TLI helps countries advance on a multitude of food systems dimensions, as outlined in SDC’s Global Program on Food Security. Such solutions are increasingly needed to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals and manage tradeoffs, and the current historical moment - in light of the crises brought about by COVID-19 and climate change - provides an opportunity to foster disruptive systems changes.

This project’s overall goal is to achieve Contribute to more sustainable food systems, with gender-sensitive and socially inclusive improvements in land tenure security, livelihoods, resilience and ecosystem health, among populations in Ethiopia, Mozambique, Ghana, Laos, Myanmar and beyond.. It focuses on three interrelated pathways: (1) investors; (2) the national business ecosystem; and (3) the global and regional development community. Systems transformation for TLI requires multi-tiered approaches that change investor practices and enabling environments at all levels to promote and incentivize transformation.

The ultimate project beneficiaries are marginalized and vulnerable rural communities that are materially affected by private sector agriculture and forestry investments. The project will enhance food, nutritional and tenure security, especially of women and young people, and empower farmer and indigenous women and men in agricultural and forestry value chains.

In the first phase (2021-2024), the project focuses on five countries - Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique, Laos and Myanmar.

CIFOR leads the project, with support from partners SNV, LEI, ICRAF and RECOFTC.