Finance for Resilient Landscapes (“F4RL”) is a collaboration led by Proforest, Conservation International (CI) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC), with philanthropic support from HSBC. The program is a global effort to accelerate financial flows to support resilient nature-positive commodity production landscapes. The F4RL program is delivered at the landscape level through pilots in mature agricultural production landscapes where jurisdictional or landscape approaches are already established. The Tapanuli Landscape of North Sumatra (encompassing Tapanuli Selatan, Tapanuli Tengah, Tapanuli Utara and Mandailing Natal) has been identified as a priority landscape, where Conservation International and Konservasi Indonesia will be developing and piloting landscape financing models that support nature positive transitions in palm oil and potentially other agriculture sectors. Building on the strong foundation established through the ongoing Tapanuli Landscape Initiative—where companies have already made significant investments—the program aims to connect these efforts with the global financial sector to drive progress that is both scalable and sustainable over time.
Within Tapanuli, F4RL will identify key financing needs and match them with appropriate financial mechanisms, enabling companies and local actors to access the capital required to implement and scale landscape transitions that deliver both production and conservation outcomes. This landscape finance approach seeks to move beyond fragmented, project-based funding toward an integrated, long-term financing model—one that addresses the underlying drivers of degradation while creating sustainable funding streams for both people and nature.
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