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Scaling up Investments to Secure Community Land and Forest Rights – Alain Frechette, The Tenure Facility Rights and Resources Initiative from Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) This presentation by The Tenure Facility Rights and Resources Initiative’s Alain Frechette was given at a session titled “Scaling up Investments to Secure Community Land and Forest Rights” […]

Peter Wheeler, Executive Vice President of The Nature Conservancy, moderated the opening session of the Global Landscape Forum on investment in London on June 10, 2015 with Leslie L. Durschinger, Managing Director of Terra Global, Mark Burrows, Vice Chairman for Global Investment Banking at Credit Suisse, Bernard Giraud who moved from Danone to become President […]

A former vice-president at Groupe Danone, Bernard Giraud now heads Livelihoods Venture, an organisation that manages investment funds on behalf of corporations intent on making their supply chains more sustainable – all the way to the farm level.

Helena Viñes Fiestas, head of sustainability research at BNP Paribas Investment Partners, talks about the steps her bank is taking to investigate sourcing and land use practices in its portfolio.

James Cameron, chairman of the Overseas Development Institute, says his experience in both the investment and social and environmental development sectors has taught him that you cannot success in one without the other.

CIFOR’s director for forests and governance research, Steven Lawry, speaks on the side of the Global Landscape Forum on investment in London. He says corporate leaders have got the message that social and environmental degradation threatens their bottom line – yet much work remains to be done.