• Capacity Development Provider

Fairventures is a global leader in the large-scale reforestation of degraded land and the conservation of biodiverse forests in economically viable systems that benefit local communities. Their mission: Empowering farmers through reforestation and responsible value chains. In their non-profit program, Fairventures Worldwide, they support smallholder farmers to restore their land using a combination of trees and intercrops. The farmers receive intensive support all along the way from planting to selling the wood. Fairventures Social Forestry, their for-profit sister company, works with communities on so-called social forestry areas and reforests them. They create and implement successful scalable business models for deforestation-free tropical timber and selected cash crops, that benefit local communities, investors and the environment.

  • Stages of Support

    • Idea
    • Start-up
    • Early
    • Growth
    • Mature

Organization Programs

Indonesia: 100 Million Trees for Borneo, Fairventures Social Forestry, TREEO App

  • Sectors of Focus

    • Sustainable Forestry and Reforestation
  • Services

    • Conduct research on the sector to disseminate publicly (such as an entrepreneurship research report)
    • Invest or provide direct financial support to SGBs or entrepreneurs
    • Manage a crowdfunding platform
  • Nonfinancial Services

    • Capacity development services
    • Market linkages
    • Investment linkages
  • Capacity development services

    • Business strategy and planning
    • Performance or impact measurement and management support
    • Value/supply chain development
    • Talent development/HR (including leadership)
    • Operations and technology development or adoption
  • Market linkages services

    • Access to new markets/customers
    • Access to infrastructure
    • Access to materials
  • Investment linkages services

    • Access to information/research
    • Access to investors
  • Program online

    • Primarily in-person
  • Focus Tech

    • No
  • Focus Population

    • Rural entrepreneurs