Livelihoods Venture is a social business that originates, designs and monitors large scale projects of natural ecosystem restoration, regenerative agriculture, agroforestry and rural energy, aiming to create sustainable ecological and social value. It operates in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe with a team of 50 agronomists, foresters, rural development practitioners, carbon, M&E and finance experts from 12 nationalities, who manage the livelihoods portfolio of projects through a large network of NGOs, suppliers, and public agencies.

A specifity of Livelihoods is its cooperative model: investors in the Livelihoods funds are fully associated with the investment decision and fund governance. Livelihoods' strategic pillars are twofold:

Within the value chain:
Livelihoods partners with large corporations that source raw material from agriculture or forestry, to help them transform their supply chain and meet their social and ecological commitments.
Livelihoods has also developed a range of large scale projects with smallholder farmers in cocoa, coconut, vanilla, shea, coffee, dairy, palm, etc., to address both poverty and sustainability issues.
In mature economies, Livelihoods mobilizes coalitions of actors along the value chain from farmers to cooperatives, processors and brands to foster regenerative agriculture practices that restore soils and biodiversity while storing carbon.

Beyond the value chain:
Livelihoods Carbon Funds (LCF) work with companies committed to becoming net zero. In addition to their efforts to curb carbon emissions in their operations, product design, etc., these companies invest in Livelihoods projects which provide them with high quality carbon credits.