20 August 2025

The Responsible Commodities Facility (RCF), a 2018 Lab alumn, has secured USD 60 million in its fourth investment cycle to support sustainable soy production in the Brazilian Cerrado, the world’s most biodiverse savanna.

Managed by Sustainable Investment Management (SIM), RCF channels low-interest loans to farmers committed to zero-deforestation cultivation. This cycle will benefit 280 farmers, enabling the production of more than 240,000 tons of deforestation-free soy while conserving around 90,000 hectares of native vegetation and safeguarding 22 million tons of CO2-equivalent carbon stocks.

Investors in the RCF are UK supermarkets Tesco, Sainsbury’s, and Waitrose, alongside Rabobank and AGRI3 Fund. For this 2025/26 soy growing season, new investors include IDB Invest and the Mobilising Finance for Forests (MFF) program, which is managed by FMO, the Dutch entrepreneurial development bank, and is funded by the UK Government and the Government of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Other investors are in the process of joining for the 2026/27 season, when the fund is estimated to top USD 200 million.