Valuing Nature by William Ginn

Author:William Ginn [Ginn, William J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BUS094000 Business & Economics / Green Business, NAT038000 Nature / Natural Resources
Publisher: Island Press

Deal Book

Using Loan Conditions to End Deforestation

Developers/Investors: Bunge, Santander, and The Nature Conservancy

Approach: Provide long-term loans to soybean producers on reasonable terms to help them improve and expand production in already-degraded areas. The loans have covenants that prohibit the borrower from converting natural ecosystems to agriculture. This approach aims to shift the focus of farmers away from forests and grasslands to the millions of available acres of degraded land. The initial pilot program makes available $50 million that will be distributed and collected through Bunge’s existing crop financing program, which already provides seeds and fertilizers to farmers to help them meet annual cash needs and deducts payments from the purchase price of the crop at the end of the season.

Contact: www.nature.org/Brazil

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