LDN Advisory is an asset management fund initiative aiming at mobilizing financial resources to create sound market driven-land rehabilitation projects.
Its main mission is to contribute to the Target 15.3 of the Sustainable Development Goals aims to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) worldwide by 2030.
In Rio+20 (2012) and the Conference of Parties (COP/Ankara 2015 and COP/ Nairobi 2016), Land Degradation Neutrality has became a key issue in the efforts to manage Climate Change impact as well as Biodiversity Conservation. More recently, the results of the UNCCD’s LDN project in 14 countries have remarked the need of having a large financial tool integrated by governments, private sector, academy and NGOs, able to finance key projects in this field.
LDN advisory is part of this effort of allocating funds to low resources groups of land users, targeting transformative projects.

Focus: Looking for development impact

Focus: Problematic to address

Land-owner problematic:
Due to water, wind and mechanical erosion as well as physical, chemical and biological degradation many land users suffer loss of arable and reduction of land productivity.
LDN Advisory seeks to help these farmers providing several services among then financial and technical backstopping.
Regions-land problematic
Many regions and urban areas lack of  land protection, conservation andrestoration strategies. That  make them particularly vulnerable to  environmental disasters and to climatechange consequences.
LDN Advisory puts at the service of these regions a package od strategies, mechanisms and projects to cope with this reality
LDN Advisory is constituted by highly experimented experts in addressing environmental issues.  All LDN Advisory members share the same principle: sustainable solution only are possible with the active participation of local authorities and entrepreneurs in join ventures  with national and international  cooperation institutions as well as financial entities.

Alain Retiere is an agriculture engineer, specialised in tropical agroecology, restoration and conservation of tropical ecosystems and participatory territorial planning. Throughout his career he has contributed to technical assistance missions in more than 100 countries in the areas of post-conflict rehabilitation, natural disaster recovery and risk mitigation and low carbon economic development activities especially in agriculture and agroforestry.  Since2014, Alain is supporting UNCCD on its LDN efforts, in policy strategies,target setting methodologies, indicators and data management as well as in guiding the design of LDN transformative investment projects.

Originally from Cameroon and educated in Paris and at UC Berkeley, Daniel Mouen Makoua has founded the London-based global investment company Bwamanga Sustainable Investment advisors. Through innovative collaboration across sectors, Bwamanga has in particular promoted sustainable agriculture, food security, and youth employment in Northern Nigeria. Mr. Mouen Makoua has previously performed a career at AXA Investment Managers where he has occupied various high level management positions (UK Chief OperatingOfficer, Executive Vice President for Strategy and Planning, Chief InvestmentOfficer at AXA Rosenberg,….

Graduated from the French ESSEC Business School, Pierre Delcroix is an economist with over 30 years’ experience working on waste management and agroforestry projects in Africa (Morocco, Egypt, Nigeria, Benin, Uganda, Kenya,and Tanzania) for international companies including Rhone-Poulenc, Suez  and Lafarge. Pierre is a skilled leader of inter-disciplinary project teams and experienced in facilitating and promoting the development of strategic partnerships. Currently owner of the Impact projects consulting firm Delcroix Consulting specialized in Alternative Fuels and Raw Material for the cement kilns, as well as in Municipal and industrial waste planning.

Olivier Follin started his business career in the Automotive Industry at Renault Inc. in the USA and in the International Banking sector.. He joined in 1992 “Agence Française de Développement (AFD group)” in 1992. As a senior Investment Officer at PROPARCO he worked on financing industrial projects, before becoming PROPARCO’s CFO in 1997. In 2001, he joined the AFD holding in charge of structuring the equity markets inFrench Overseas Territories . In 2011, he joined the Sub-SaharanAfrica department to work on developing the PPP approach, before leading in 2012 the Nigerian PROPARCO office, that reach under his guidance  cumulated investments amounting to USD 705 M targeted at banks, PE funds, infrastructure, agroindustry and health sector.

Ludwig Liagre is a Development Cooperation expert, specialized in Rio conventions (UNFCCC, CBD,UNCCD) implementation and founder of the consulting enterprise Rio Impact. Ludwig started his career as forest policy and finance advisor for the GIZ in Middle East North Africa and Latin America, developing and implementing impactful projects at the interface of the three Rio conventions. As international consultant he further worked with UN agencies (UNDP, FAO) in Africa and Asia.More recently he operated as Climate Change Specialist at the EuropeanInvestment Bank (EIB) and as Programme Officer at the Global Mechanism of the UNCCD, where he supervised work on LDN Transformative Projects and Programmes. He holds MScs in Rural Development & Environmental Economics fromAgroParisTech, France and a MBA from Le College des Ingénieurs, France-Germany.

LDN ADVISORY seeks to support  small and medium size land users and regions where land protection, conservation and restoration are urgent tasks to increase land productivity, as well as reduce their exposure to environmental disasters

Our Business's principles are:

-To assure respect of the national / regional interests over the land and related natural assets on the long term. (environment, social and economy)
- Achieve a legally secured business environment for Public and Private Investors and Agro.
- Food Companies.
- To Implement an innovative “Land use Plan” approach.

We promote a three levels initiatives:

- The “landowner”, the entity managing the land rights and permits that include the legal owning administrations.
- The “Assets Manager”, the entity taking the legal responsibility to develop the LDN project.
- The “Land user”, the entity managing the new Land use Plan (global infrastructures, reforestation, Commercial plantations, Horticulture, Biochar, Micro-finances,…), that will include national Funds, DFI’s, private Equity investors, main stakeholders such as Cooperatives, Commercial planters, Commodity Processors, Service Providers?).

In the case of Ile Dotun, Nigeria:

LDN advisory formulates the project, organises the political alignment,proposes the new Land Use Plan, identifies the three levels entities, organizes the funding, and manage the Land User entity fora first period.

What we Do: Specific Services

• Diagnostic of Land Neutrality problematic.
• Elaboration of Land use plan.
• Organization, funding, and management of Land User initiatives.
• Designing and implementation of Land Neutrality Participatory and financial Mechanisms.

What we Do: Partners

• German Cooperation
• Local authorities
• United NationsConvention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
IKi project
The Ile Dotun Pilot Case

Alain Retiere
CAP2100 International
M +33 (0)6 99 23 41 05
alain.retiere@cap2100international.com

Daniel Mouen Makoua
‍BwamangaSustainable Investment Advisors
M +44 7887 551 904
‍daniel.mouen-makoua@bwamanga.com

Pierre Delcroix
Delcroix Consulting
M +33(0)6 27 88 53 07
delcroixconsulting@gmail.com

Olivier Follin
M +33(0)6 88 95 22 07
olivier_follin@live.fr

Ludwig Liagre
M +352661138 403
ludwig.liagre@rioimpact.lu