reVive: Investment Development Hub

reVive provides specialised and localised technical assistance for projects to become ready for investment, while promoting sustainable land management, forest protection, and better conditions for smallholder farmers. The Hub has established gender as an important aspect of its work. reVive ensures gender is addressed in its technical assistance and promotes women-led and women-owned initiatives throughout each intervention. 

Over the past year, reVive has made tangible strides in supporting climate-positive enterprises across Colombia. Through targeted technical assistance and catalytic investments, we’ve empowered mission-aligned organizations to scale solutions in regenerative agriculture, carbon removal, and sustainable land use.

Below, we celebrate some of the inspiring investees whose innovation and commitment are shaping a more resilient future. 

The Hub plays a key role in building an ecosystem for scale (as opposed to a project-based approach) in nurturing potential investments to scale, and in ensuring an exit strategy for its TA through the convened Finance Network. Specifically, it breaks down the aforementioned barriers with the following design: 

1. Localized and tailor-made investment preparation process, staffed with business and investment skill sets and a clearly defined investment readiness roadmap. 
2. A network of technical assistance providers, specialized in sustainable land management, agricultural production and ways to deliver smallholder impact. 
3. A grants budget to deploy to help move projects along the investment readiness map. 
4. Convening of the Finance Network of impact-minded financiers that closely participate in the investment preparation process through an MOU and the governance structure of the Hub. 
5. Harmonizing and embedding the basic requirements of funds into the investment preparation process. 
6. A joint pipeline sourcing process between the Hub and participating Funds.

A year into the implementation of the reVive TA Hub, we continue to strengthen and scale high-impact initiatives across Colombia. Our technical assistance and investment readiness support targets the following key archetypes: 

• SMEs in sustainable agriculture and bioeconomy, often leading project development and connecting value chains. 

• Smallholder farmers adopting sustainable land use practices and accessing markets and finance. 

• Community-based projects led by local and Indigenous communities, focused on restoration and livelihoods. 

• Women-led or owned initiatives, with a target of 30% of supported projects advancing gender equity. 

• Aggregators and offtakers that link producers to markets and drive scale. 

• Local financial institutions and MFIs, as partners in expanding access to tailored green finance. 

Across all archetypes, we prioritize gender-transformative approaches that amplify women’s roles in leadership, ownership, decision-making, and technical fields. 

Biodiversal

Biodiversal is a Colombian company specializing in regenerative agriculture and biochar production.

As part of The Coffee Hub, it supports smallholder farmers through climate-smart practices and carbon credit generation. Biodiversal is implementing a biochar-based carbon removal project integrated into the coffee value chain, engaging 1,600 smallholder farmers and aiming to generate over 27,000 high-integrity carbon credits while improving soil health. 

reVive is supporting Biodiversal in strengthening its coffee biochar program and accessing the financing needed to scale it. In the next phase, the project will engage 20 smallholder coffee clusters, aiming to improve practices across 2,200 hectares, generate 27,240 high-integrity carbon credits, and produce 13,760 tons of biochar — boosting climate resilience, soil health, and farmer livelihoods. 

Grupo Colnatu

Grupo Colnatu has built a vertically integrated value chain for allergen-free snacks made from cassava and plantain, sourcing approximately 65% of its plantain and 100% of its cassava from external suppliers, mostly smallholder producers.

The company directly manages 60 hectares under regenerative practices, while an additional 17 hectares from its supplier network are already certified. Its goal is to expand and cascade regenerative practices across its broader value chain. Colnatu is rapidly expanding its footprint in U.S. retail markets, including Whole Foods, Costco, and Walmart, and to date has eliminated over 80 tons of CO₂ and created 284 jobs, with a focus on gender inclusion. 

To support its next phase of growth, Colnatu is seeking investment to scale operations, strengthen regenerative practices, create local jobs, and build national processing capacity — ultimately improving margins, expanding market reach, and positioning the company as a category leader in the fast-growing “better-for-you” snack segment (projected to grow at a 20.7% CAGR through 2033). reVive is actively supporting Colnatu in this investment process.

Equilibria

Equilibria Agro S.A.S. is a Colombian agricultural ecosystem that combines its own Tahiti lime production with the integration of small and medium-sized producers, providing them with technology, technical assistance, and direct access to international markets. Its mission is to transform lives in rural areas through sustainable agriculture and fair trade.

Thanks to reVive and IDH, Equilibria is strengthening EqApp, its digital platform that enables real-time agronomic monitoring and improves traceability and sustainability in production. This partnership is focused on enhancing offline access, improving usability for rural producers, and expanding adoption of the platform — enabling Equilibria to reach more farmers, increase their income, and scale its export capacity with social impact. 

The Landscape Investment Development Hub Colombia (the “Hub”) is a GEF-funded project, implemented by Conservation International and executed by IDH.  The vision for the Hub was shaped by the experience of the IDH Landscape Finance (LF) in managing TA facilities for IDH partner funds, including LDN, AGRI3, &Green and Farmfit. Over the period of 2016-23, the Landscape Finance Team has built a track record of disbursing >$15 million in Technical Assistance funding, spread across 40 projects, while mobilizing $130 million of investment.

Figure 1: IDH Landscape Finance-managed TA Projects as of H1 2023

This project is made possible through funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), in partnership with Conservation International (CI) as an Implementing GEF Agency.