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AgroLAC 2025 Multidonor Trust Fund

AgroLAC 2025 Multidonor Trust Fund finances activities that focus on improving agricultural productivity and natural resources management as a means of enhancing food security and reducing poverty. The main areas of intervention are financing non-reimbursable operations (Technical Cooperation and Investment Grants) for

project design and studies;
formulation / review of national strategies and policies;
training and other knowledge events, and

Demonstration and pilot projects within the following three pillars: i. Agricultural/Environmental management; ii. Increased Productivity through Sustainable Intensification; iii.Trade and Access to Markets. Specifically, this platform aims to promote projects related to food and crops of value-added commodities, livestock, fisheries, agroforestry and related to institutional capacity and governance.The fund is part of IDB's NDC Invest Platform, a one-stop shop of the IDB Group to help countries access resources needed to translate national climate commitments into investment plans and bankable projects. NDC Invest is a platform that includes the entire universe of financial and non-financial instruments of the IDB Group, and it is comprised of four elements: NDC Programmer, NDC Pipeline Accelerator, NDC Market Booster and NDC Finance Mobilizer. Together, the components aim to enable progress toward both the NDC and IDB lending objectives, as well as toward achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Support provider

Agencia Presidencial de Cooperacion Internacional de Colombia (APC), Global Affairs Canada The Dow Chemical Company

Purpose of support

Scoping and project preparation

Creating enabling environments and building institutional capacity

Project and program implementation

Eligible countries and regions

All borrowing member countries of the Bank, except Mexico, Haiti, and Dominican Republic, will be eligible to receive financing from the Fund. Regional initiatives in Bank borrowing member countries will also be eligible. Single country project proposals may focus on the national and/or subnational level.

Eligibility criteria

Activities must focus on:

Trade and Access to Markets

Initiatives that will support and strengthen farmers’ ability to participate in regional and global markets.
Initiatives that will support governments in implementing changes to current trade policies and practices and promote agricultural trade.
Initiatives that will increase engagement of private sector firms to enhance access to regional and global markets.

Increased Productivity through Sustainable Intensification

Initiatives that will strengthen farmers’ ability to increase their agricultural production in an environmentally sustainable manner.
Initiatives that will strengthen governments’, private sector, and academic institutions' ability to provide agricultural services

Agricultural / Environmental Management

Initiatives that will strengthen the capacity of local and national governments to develop and implement sustainable agricultural plans and policies that emphasize the promotion of public goods.
Initiatives that will facilitate or generate access to good practices on land use planning for the public and private sector, including farmers, in LAC.

Financial instruments

Grants

Decision-making information

The Office of Outreach and Partnerships (ORP) is responsible for the management and reporting of the Fund. The Fund’s technical management will be the responsibility of INE/RND and INT.

Information on how to...

View specific instruction on proposal preparation in this document (section three). Proposed operations could be requested by both public and private sector entities, and the Bank. Individual operations requested by public sector entities (National or sub-national) will require a non-objection letter from the corresponding official national liaison with the Bank.

Climate objective

Adaptation

Sectors and themes

Agriculture, Forestry and Land-Use, Oceans and Coasts

Type of support provider

Multilateral

Type of recipient

Public entity at the national level, Public entity at the sub-national level, Private sector, Non-profit or civil society organization, International organization

Fund size

USD 30-50 million

Co-financing required

Yes

Trustee or administrator

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

Contact information

https://www.iadb.org/es/sectores/agricultura/agrolac/inicio

ORP Office: Heleno Barbosa, helenob@iadb.org, Kai Hertz kaih@iadb.org

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