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Discover Landscape Finance
Scaling Capital for Nature and People
WWF Viet Nam field team crossing a forested landscape
© Saigoneer / WWF-Viet Nam
Built for Landscape Impact

Explore Landscape Finance

Access the tools, real-world case studies, and financial frameworks needed to protect ecosystems and transform food and agriculture systems for a sustainable future.

ABOUT US

WWF is an independent global conservation organization, formed in 1961 and committed to building a future where people and nature thrive.

Our mission is to stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.

SHAPE THE FUTURE OF CONSERVATION

Discover Landscape Finance

Scaling Capital for Nature and People

The Landscape Finance Approach (LFA) is a holistic framework and systematic process for mobilizing and aligning public, private, and philanthropic finance for the benefit of people, nature and the economy. The approach identifies landscapes with strong impact and financing potential, translates them into investable opportunities combining “Financing Green” interventions that increase investment in nature with “Greening Finance” interventions that integrate environmental and social considerations into financial decision-making, ensuring these strategies reinforce one another to achieve climate, biodiversity, and community outcomes.

Agri-food systems field reference
© WWF-US/Alejandro Prieto
LEARNING PATH

Understand the Landscape Finance Approach for Agri-Food Systems

Agrifood systems are currently one of the greatest pressures on nature, but they also offer a critical opportunity for conservation. Nature-positive agriculture is an approach to farming that produces food while protecting, managing, and restoring nature, enabling ecosystems, biodiversity, and soils to recover and continue to support people and production in the long term.

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WHY IT MATTERS

The Reality in Numbers

The facts driving the need for a sustainable financial shift.

$58T
Global Economic Risk
of global GDP — more than half — depends directly on healthy, thriving ecosystems.
+50%
Food Price Threat
Climate risks could drive global cereal prices up by 50% by the year 2050.
$700B
The Funding Gap
The annual biodiversity financing gap needed to reverse ecosystem degradation by 2030.
17 Bt
Annual Carbon Footprint
CO₂e emitted by agrifood systems every year.
Field team working in a wetland landscape
© Juha-Pekka Kervinen / WWF
RESOURCES

Resource library

The Playbook, the LFA framework, ready-to-use templates and a plain-language glossary — versioned, dated, open.

CONTACT & INFO

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WWF International – Food Practice and Finance Practice Leads

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