Are you curious to learn how LDN Fund and TAF work together towards Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN)? Read through our projects highlights, lessons learned, and deep dive to our resources in this LDN Insights website. Get ready to be inspired!

Facts & Figures

The LDN TAF Portfolios

  • 25

    commodities from coffee and cocoa to timber and artemisia

  • 26

    project partners around the world

  • 18

    countries across Latin America, Africa, Asia

below are facts and figures from the LDN Fund and TAF

  • LDN Fund investments

    LDN Fund investees (# project partners) 13
    Geographic spread (# countries) 11
    Blended finance committted (in usd) 166,000,000

  • LDN Technical Assistance Facility (TAF)

    TA supporting pipeline projects 21
    TA supporting LDN Fund investees 7
    TA-supported pipelines invested by LDN Fund 5
    # project partners

  • TA project funding

    TAF spending - actuals and committed 2,500,623
    Project co-funding mobilized 3,331,007
    (in euro)

About LDN Insights

Gautier Quéru – Fund Director, Mirova
Nienke Stam – Program Director Landscapes Finance, IDH

 

This LDN Insights landing page shares facts & figures, lessons learned, tools and publications of the Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) Fund and Technical Assistance Facility (TAF). It is our second joint learning platform, since the LDN Fund and linked TAF were launched at the UNCCD COP 13 in Ordos, China, in 2017.

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Louise Baker – Managing Director of the UNCCD Global Mechanism, UNCCD

 

Healthy and resilient land is increasingly recognized as the foundation of sustainable growth and prosperity in all regions. It could provide the basis of plans to build back better after the COVID19 pandemic and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Investing for healthy and productive land not only supports sustainable development and protects our shared natural resources but can generate commercially attractive returns.

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