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Only 12 of 141 Pan-Amazon financing mechanisms are built exclusively for sociobiodiversity value chains. Amazonia Impact Fund I is one of them. Since inception, AIF I has issued 52 impact-linked loans across four Amazonian countries, deploying over $13 million to Indigenous organisations, smallholder cooperatives and SMEs, and the report's bigger finding, a structural mismatch between available capital and how Amazonian enterprises actually operate, is the real story here.
A new study mapped 141 financing mechanisms across the Amazon and found the same pattern throughout: the capital exists, but it rarely reaches the people on the ground. From investor education to the GLF Investment Case Symposium, three conversations this week on what it takes to close that gap — and what AIV has learned closing it.