Supporting sustainable investments in the agricultural, energy and food production sector in Cuba's Central region

This project aims at supporting the identification and financing of investments in agriculture, livestock breeding and agroforestry and at underpinning their implementation in order to promote sustainable practices based on agroecological principles while mainstreaming climate change mitigation and adaptation into the agriculture and livestock sectors.

LACIF and AFD aim to:

1. a) Extend agroecological and agro-sylvo-pastoral technologies, tackle environmental and social risks and bring institutional support to the main stakeholders of the PRODEGAN project (cooperatives, agro-industries, decentralized service providers, local authorities, producers associations, research institutions) in Camagüey, the main animal production area in the country;
2. b) Enable the most adapted investment for a modern integrated carbonization/cogeneration plant by a private investor (5 candidates identified by Cuban authorities) as a part of an overall clean, locally produced, energy production strategy coupled with the elaboration of innovative bio-sourced by-products through the valorization of the invasive marabú tree;
3. c) Develop environmental and social governance and a green portfolio at BANDEC, the main financing institution in the local agricultural sector.