Bioeconomy

Blended Finance: Unlocking Funding for Sustainable Businesses in the Amazon

Blended Finance: Unlocking Funding for Sustainable Businesses in the Amazon

Enterprises face a major challenge when it comes to accessing capital: limited access to credit and investment, as they are often deemed high-risk by traditional banks and investors. With this gap in funding, blended finance emerges as a strategic solution. It combines philanthropic, public, and private capital to reduce risk and attract investment in sustainable enterprises. By taking on the first risk, organizations like NESsT create the necessary conditions for banks and private investors to feel confident in supporting these businesses, thus increasing their access to credit and growth capital. 

Technology Meets Traditional Knowledge in the Amazon’s Socio-Bioeconomy

Technology Meets Traditional Knowledge in the Amazon’s Socio-Bioeconomy

Many community-based enterprises in emerging sustainable socio-bioeconomy value chains lack the means and infrastructure to adopt digital monitoring and communication tools to track forest conservation and improve their production processes. With support from Cisco Foundation, in 2021, NESsT launched a search for early-stage technology enterprises that provide sustainable livelihoods to underserved communities and regenerate the environment. Read more about the initiative learnings here.

Modul în care raționalizarea cererilor de finanțare și a criteriilor de raportare poate îmbunătăți accesibilitatea finanțării pentru inițiativele de bază din Amazon

How Streamlining Funding Application and Reporting Criteria can Improve Financing Accessibility for Grassroots Initiatives in the Amazon

In this blog, we speak with bioeconomy entrepreneurs to better understand the challenges they face when applying for funding from multiple sources. Read it now to learn how complex application criteria and reporting demands impact their businesses and explore actionable recommendations for how the funding community can help ensure more equitable, inclusive access to financing. 

De ce o definiție incluzivă a bioeconomiei este importantă pentru finanțarea întreprinderilor Amazon

Why an Inclusive Definition of the Bioeconomy Matters for Financing Amazon Enterprises

NESsT’s recent study and extensive research identifies that the term ‘bioeconomy’ is often broadly interpreted by bioeconomy funders and global policymakers, sometimes straying far from a vision of environmental stewardship. We interviewed Indigenous leaders and entrepreneurs as part of ongoing efforts to deepen our understanding of their perspectives, vision and expectations of the bioeconomy as not just as an economic model, but as a way of life rooted deeply in ancestral tradition.  

Metodele din spatele studiului realizat de NESsTpentru a aduce perspectivele locale în discuțiile privind finanțarea bioeconomiei

The Methods Behind NESsT’s Study to Bring Local Perspectives to Bioeconomy Financing Discussions

This blog delves into the methodology behind NESsT’s publication to improve the targeting, accessibility, efficacy, and efficiency of investments in the Amazon bioeconomy; it homes in on NESsT’s firm intention to bring local voices to global discussions around Amazon bioeconomy funding and explores how NESsT anchored the publication in authentic narratives and diverse Amazonian contexts while tailoring the message for the international financing community.