AgroLAC 2025 Multidonor Trust Fund

Type of Recipient
Public entity at the national level
Public entity at the sub-national level
International organization
Non-profit or civil society organization
Private sector
Region
Latin America and the Caribbean
Fund Size

USD 30-50 million

Co-financing Requirement
Yes
Sectors and Themes
Agriculture
Forestry and Other Land Use
Oceans and Coasts
Climate Objective
Adaptation
Type of Support Provider
Multilateral
Trustee or Administrator
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Contact Information

ORP Office: Heleno Barbosa, helenob@iadb.org, Kai Hertz kaih@iadb.org

AgroLAC 2025 Multidonor Trust Fund finances activities that focus on improving agricultural productivity and natural resources management as a means of enhancing food security and reducing poverty. The main areas of intervention are financing non-reimbursable operations (Technical Cooperation and Investment Grants) for

  • project design and studies;
  • formulation / review of national strategies and policies;
  • training and other knowledge events, and
Demonstration and pilot projects within the following three pillars: i. Agricultural/Environmental management; ii. Increased Productivity through Sustainable Intensification; iii.Trade and Access to Markets. Specifically, this platform aims to promote projects related to food and crops of value-added commodities, livestock, fisheries, agroforestry and related to institutional capacity and governance.The fund is part of IDB's NDC Invest Platform, a one-stop shop of the IDB Group to help countries access resources needed to translate national climate commitments into investment plans and bankable projects. NDC Invest is a platform that includes the entire universe of financial and non-financial instruments of the IDB Group, and it is comprised of four elements: NDC Programmer, NDC Pipeline Accelerator, NDC Market Booster and NDC Finance Mobilizer. Together, the components aim to enable progress toward both the NDC and IDB lending objectives, as well as toward achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
Support Provider

Agencia Presidencial de Cooperacion Internacional de Colombia (APC), Global Affairs Canada, The Dow Chemical Company

Purpose of Support
Strengthening enabling environments and stakeholder capacity
Prepare Proposals, Projects and Pipelines
Project and program implementation
Funding Type
Grants
Loans (concessional and market-rate)
Organizational and Decision Making Structure

The Office of Outreach and Partnerships (ORP) is responsible for the management and reporting of the Fund. The Fund’s technical management will be the responsibility of INE/RND and INT.

Eligibility Criteria

Activities must focus on:

Trade and Access to Markets

  1. Initiatives that will support and strengthen farmers’ ability to participate in regional and global markets.
  2. Initiatives that will support governments in implementing changes to current trade policies and practices and promote agricultural trade.
  3. Initiatives that will increase engagement of private sector firms to enhance access to regional and global markets.

Increased Productivity through Sustainable Intensification

  1. Initiatives that will strengthen farmers’ ability to increase their agricultural production in an environmentally sustainable manner.
  2. Initiatives that will strengthen governments’, private sector, and academic institutions' ability to provide agricultural services

Agricultural / Environmental Management

  1. Initiatives that will strengthen the capacity of local and national governments to develop and implement sustainable agricultural plans and policies that emphasize the promotion of public goods.
  2. Initiatives that will facilitate or generate access to good practices on land use planning for the public and private sector, including farmers, in LAC.
Eligible Countries

Latin America and the Caribbean

Information on how to

View specific instruction on proposal preparation in this document (section three). Proposed operations could be requested by both public and private sector entities, and the Bank. Individual operations requested by public sector entities (National or sub-national) will require a non-objection letter from the corresponding official national liaison with the Bank.