Impact initiatives and regenerative projects have the inherent potential to deliver extraordinary social and ecological value. The problem is that very few of today’s changemakers succeed at securing funding for their initiatives. In fact, only a small fraction of the vast pools of green capital ever reaches real projects on the ground. Our premise is simple: the stalemate is real, but the problem is not the projects themselves. It is their framing and the investment architec

Dryland regeneration has captured imaginations for decades, embodied most visibly by the vast afforestation programs of China’s Three-North Shelterbelt and Africa’s Great Green Wall. The challenge now is to look beyond these initiatives – to recognize what has been achieved, but also to identify the missing links that prevent promising initiatives from becoming truly sustainable.