Building the next generation landscape investment pipeline through national Technical Assistance Hubs
The vision of the Investment Development Hub Colombia is to demonstrate that with specialised and localised technical assistance alongside the right capital mix, more projects can become ready for investment, while promoting sustainable land management, forest protection, and conditions of smallholder farmers.
reVive provides specialised and localised technical assistance for projects to become ready for investment, while promoting sustainable land management, forest protection, and better conditions for smallholder farmers
reVive provides specialised and localised technical assistance for projects to become ready for investment, while promoting sustainable land management, forest protection, and better conditions for smallholder farmers. The Hub has established gender as an important aspect of its work. reVive ensures gender is addressed in its technical assistance and promotes women-led and women-owned initiatives throughout each intervention.
Over the past year, reVive has made tangible strides in supporting climate-positive enterprises across Colombia. Through targeted technical assistance and catalytic investments, we’ve empowered mission-aligned organizations to scale solutions in regenerative agriculture, carbon removal, and sustainable land use.
Below, we celebrate some of the inspiring investees whose innovation and commitment are shaping a more resilient future.
Our services are tailored to the needs and growth stage of each business:
The Hub plays a key role in building an ecosystem for scale (as opposed to a project-based approach) in nurturing potential investments to scale, and in ensuring an exit strategy for its TA through the convened Finance Network. Specifically, it breaks down the aforementioned barriers with the following design:
The Hub focuses its TA support on SMEs, project developers, cooperatives, aggregators and financial institutions working with and on-lending to smallholder farmers, and for the purposes of land restoration and sustainable agriculture. The starting screen for candidate selection for Hub’s services is its potential to contribute to sustainable land use and forest management and provide measurable benefits to smallholder farmers.
A year into the implementation of the reVive TA Hub, we continue to strengthen and scale high-impact initiatives across Colombia. Our technical assistance and investment readiness support targets the following key archetypes:
Across all archetypes, we prioritize gender-transformative approaches that amplify women’s roles in leadership, ownership, decision-making, and technical fields.
This first-hand Technical Assistance experience showed a mismatch exists between the supply and demand of capital, necessary to move the needle on sustainable land use and produce a meaningful impact on rural livelihoods and smallholders.
Part of reVive’s intervention strategy—rooted in the belief that the right technical assistance can help more businesses become investment-ready—is to connect potential investees with financiers from an early stage. That’s why we created the reVive Finance Network (FN): a group of aligned funds and financial institutions seeking to finance projects, initiatives, and companies that contribute to land degradation neutrality.
Since 2024, reVive has deepened collaboration with 16 financial institutions (part of the FN) to help close the financing gap between these businesses and the financial sector. These partners are not only potential funders—they are also willing to provide early feedback on what gaps businesses need to address to become truly investment-ready. Through the network we:
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1- Biodiversal 2- Grupo Colnatu 3- Equilibria Agro S.A.S.
Biodiversal is a Colombian company specializing in regenerative agriculture and biochar production.
As part of The Coffee Hub, it supports smallholder farmers through climate-smart practices and carbon credit generation. Biodiversal is implementing a biochar-based carbon removal project integrated into the coffee value chain, engaging 1,600 smallholder farmers and aiming to generate over 27,000 high-integrity carbon credits while improving soil health.
reVive is supporting Biodiversal in strengthening its coffee biochar program and accessing the financing needed to scale it. In the next phase, the project will engage 20 smallholder coffee clusters, aiming to improve practices across 2,200 hectares, generate 27,240 high-integrity carbon credits, and produce 13,760 tons of biochar — boosting climate resilience, soil health, and farmer livelihoods.
Working with IDH has been key to strenghtening the credibility and projection of Coffee Biochar. We share the conviction that, with the right technical assistance and well-directed capital, it is possible to scale solutions that regenerate soils, protect ecosystems, and create real opportunities for small producers at the heart of Colombia's coffee landscape.
Grupo Colnatu has built a vertically integrated value chain for allergen-free snacks made from cassava and plantain, sourcing approximately 65% of its plantain and 100% of its cassava from external suppliers, mostly smallholder producers.
The company directly manages 60 hectares under regenerative practices, while an additional 17 hectares from its supplier network are already certified. Its goal is to expand and cascade regenerative practices across its broader value chain. Colnatu is rapidly expanding its footprint in U.S. retail markets, including Whole Foods, Costco, and Walmart, and to date has eliminated over 80 tons of CO₂ and created 284 jobs, with a focus on gender inclusion.
To support its next phase of growth, Colnatu is seeking investment to scale operations, strengthen regenerative practices, create local jobs, and build national processing capacity — ultimately improving margins, expanding market reach, and positioning the company as a category leader in the fast-growing “better-for-you” snack segment (projected to grow at a 20.7% CAGR through 2033). reVive is actively supporting Colnatu in this investment process.
reVive has contributed significantly to making our organization better prepared to receive investment. Thanks to their support, we have strenghtened our internal structures, optimized our financial processes, and improved the clarity and strength of our value proposition to potential investors. Their professional and strategic guidance has helped us identify key areas for improvement and present Grupo Colnatu in a much more compelling and organized way to financial ecosystem actors.
Equilibria Agro S.A.S. is a Colombian agricultural ecosystem that combines its own Tahiti lime production with the integration of small and medium-sized producers, providing them with technology, technical assistance, and direct access to international markets. Its mission is to transform lives in rural areas through sustainable agriculture and fair trade.
Thanks to reVive and IDH, Equilibria is strengthening EqApp, its digital platform that enables real-time agronomic monitoring and improves traceability and sustainability in production. This partnership is focused on enhancing offline access, improving usability for rural producers, and expanding adoption of the platform — enabling Equilibria to reach more farmers, increase their income, and scale its export capacity with social impact.
Working with IDH through reVive has been key to accelerating our vision: democratizing access to technology, knowledge, and markets for rural producers. This partnership is helping us scale the social and environmental impact of the Equilibria ecosystem.
The Landscape Investment Development Hub Colombia (the “Hub”) is a GEF-funded project, implemented by Conservation International and executed by IDH. The vision for the Hub was shaped by the experience of the IDH Landscape Finance (LF) in managing TA facilities for IDH partner funds, including LDN, AGRI3, &Green and Farmfit. Over the period of 2016-23, the Landscape Finance Team has built a track record of disbursing >$15 million in Technical Assistance funding, spread across 40 projects, while mobilizing $130 million of investment.
