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Featured publications
Business unusual: how business and investment pioneers are transforming forest and food supply chains (2024)
Advocacy casebook on sustainable business models.
Forest business incubation: Towards sustainable FFPO businesses (2018)
Incubation models and lessons across regions.
Mobilising internal finance: how FFPOs upscale financial access (2024)
Global synthesis and practical mechanisms.
Boosting community forestry and agroforestry businesses: field lessons learned for improving and upscaling returns from FFPO initiatives in Africa (2024)
Synthesizes lessons from African FFPOs on scaling agroforestry and forestry businesses for resilience.
Content highlights
- Forest business incubation: Towards sustainable FFPO businesses (2018)
Incubation models and lessons across regions. - Measured development: Options to distinguish and measure FFPO business impacts (2019)
Metrics and impact frameworks. - Boosting community forestry and agroforestry businesses: lessons from Africa (2024)
Field exchange synthesis for improving and upscaling returns.
- Increasing private sector involvement and investment in forestry in Nepal (2016)
Policy brief on enabling environment reforms.
- Community‑based tree and forest product enterprises: MA&D – Manual (2011)
Step‑by‑step MA&D methodology (EN/ES/FR). - MA&D – Field Facilitator Guidelines (2011)
Practical guidance for facilitators. - Forest business incubation: the heartbeat of healthy landscape livelihoods (2019)
Briefing linking incubation with market access.
- Mobilising internal finance: how FFPOs upscale financial access (2024)
Global synthesis and practical mechanisms. - Money from within: leveraging producer organisations’ finance (2024)
Policy brief (EN/ES/FR). - Access to finance for forest and farm producer organisations (2019)
Comprehensive book on demand/supply‑side solutions. - Developing bankable business plans – learning guide (2021)
How to craft investment‑ready plans. - Connecting FFPOs to climate change finance (2021)
Toolkit for accessing adaptation/mitigation finance.
Tools and training
Developing bankable business plans – A learning guide (2021)
Step-by-step guide for creating investment-ready plans.
ForBInc: Forest business incubation toolkit (2018)
Helps FFPOs incubate and scale sustainable businesses.
Access to finance for forest and farm producer organisations (2019)
Comprehensive book on financial inclusion strategies for FFPOs.
Securing forest business: A risk management toolkit for locally controlled forest businesses (2016)
Step-by-step guide for risk assessment and management in FFPO enterprises.
Supporting small forest enterprises – A facilitator’s toolkit (2012)
Practical guidance for facilitators to strengthen governance and organizational capacity.
Guide to investing in locally controlled forestry (2012)
Framework for enabling investments and partnerships.