Sustainable India Finance Facility

What Sustainable India Finance Facility does

Sustainable India Finance Facility (SIFF) is a not-for-profit partnership established in 2017, headquartered in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India, that leverages public funding to unlock private finance for sustainable land use — including regenerative agriculture, water conservation, biodiversity, restoration, sustainable food systems, and clean energy. SIFF coordinates cross-functionally between government, private sector, and communities, and is currently hosted by the Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet (GASP). It was founded with catalytic support from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), and BNP Paribas.

SIFF's core work centers on three programmes: the Andhra Pradesh Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) initiative, which partners with the Government of Andhra Pradesh and Rythu Sadhikara Samstha (RySS) to transition 6 million smallholder farmers from synthetic chemical farming to regenerative agriculture (with approximately 1 million already transitioned); a one-year SIFF Fellowship Programme that recruits graduate-level researchers for fieldwork and research on Indian agrarian and food systems (stipend INR 40,000/month); and an Air Quality and Community Health Initiative in Northern India focused on biomass-to-bioethanol and biomass-to-bio-CNG conversion. SIFF's distinctive contribution is a "distributed risk model" that segments risk across multiple actors to make sustainable projects investable by private capital.

The business model is grant- and partnership-funded rather than commercial. SIFF has 51-100 employees, no fee-generating products, no disclosed revenue or financial statements, and operates through direct institutional engagement with governments and NGOs rather than traditional sales or marketing channels. Its economics depend entirely on continued catalytic support from founding institutions (UNEP, ICRAF, BNP Paribas) and host organization GASP, with no equity holders, funding rounds, or commercial pricing disclosed in the source material.

Name

Sustainable India Finance Facility

Legal name

Sustainable India Finance Facility

Website

https://siffindia.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2017

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Sustainable India Finance Facility (SIFF) is a not-for-profit partnership, established in 2017 and hosted by the Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet, that leverages public funding to unlock private finance for sustainable land use in India, principally supporting the Government of Andhra Pradesh's Community Managed Natural Farming programme for 6 million smallholder farmers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Green Finance Facility / Sustainable Development Advisory

NAICS

Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles (525), Other Financial Vehicles (52599)

SIC

International Affairs (9721)

akta.pro primary industry

Climate Finance Funds & Green Investment Facilities (BPADACAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Development Finance & Blended Finance Facilities (BPADAOAD), Sustainable Agriculture & Food Systems Funds (FSANAJAE), Private Sector & Blended Finance Arms (IFC-type) (BPADACAJ)

Keywords

• Green finance facilitation
• Sustainable agriculture programs
• Regenerative agriculture transition
• Climate finance advisory
• Rural development fellowships

Headquarters

HQ city

Guntur

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Revenue model

1. Catalytic Funding and Partnerships: SIFF operates as a not-for-profit partnership established with catalytic support from UNEP, World Agroforestry Centre, and BNP Paribas. Currently hosted by Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet (GASP). The organisation leverages public funding to unlock private finance for sustainable land use and climate-aligned investments.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Sustainable India Finance Facility (SIFF) is a not-for-profit partnership that leverages public funding to unlock private finance for sustainable land use, including regenerative agriculture, restoration, water conservation, sustainable food systems, and clean energy. It coordinates cross-functionally between government, private sector, and communities through flagship programmes such as the Andhra Pradesh Community-Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) programme, the SIFF Fellowship Programme, and the Air Quality and Community Health Initiative. The facility applies a proprietary distributed risk model that segments risk along the value chain to make sustainable projects investable for private capital.

Product overview

SIFF is a not-for-profit partnership established in 2017 that leverages private finance for public good in sustainable land use sectors. The organization operates three main initiatives: the Andhra Pradesh Community-Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) programme supporting regenerative agriculture transition for 6 million farmers; the SIFF Fellowship Programme providing one-year research fellowships; and the Air Quality and Community Health Initiative focused on biomass conversion solutions. Rather than a conventional product-platform architecture, SIFF functions as a finance facility that coordinates cross-functionally between government, private sector and communities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Quantifiable outcome

• ~1 million farmers transitioned to natural farming
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers2 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017SIFF was established in 2017 with catalytic support from UNEP to leverage private finance for public good in sectors such as sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, freshwater, fisheries, renewables, and forest protection.
• World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017SIFF was established in 2017 with catalytic support from World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) to leverage private finance for public good in sustainable sectors.
• Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet (GASP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSIFF is currently hosted by the Global Alliance for a Sustainable Planet (GASP). GASP focuses on identifying champions, incubating ideas with system-scale potential, leveraging private finance for the public good, and garnering lessons learned for replication on a planetary scale.
• Government of Andhra Pradesh (GoAP)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSIFF supports the Government of Andhra Pradesh in its pioneering Community Managed Natural Farming (APCNF) programme to transition 6 million farmers from synthetic chemical farming to regenerative agriculture.
• Rythu Sadhikara Samstha (RySS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSIFF, in partnership with the Rythu Sadhikara Samstha (RySS) of GoAP, runs a one-year fellowship programme and implements the APCNF programme. RySS is a government body implementing the community-managed natural farming initiative.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• FMO (Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank): Netherlands-based development finance institution that invests in private enterprises in emerging markets including India across agribusiness, renewable energy, and financial inclusion. Comparable as a DFI that channels public/development capital to unlock private investment in sustainable sectors.
• British International Investment (BII): UK's development finance institution that invests in businesses across Africa and South Asia, including climate-smart agriculture. Comparable as a much larger DFI with overlapping Indian agribusiness and climate finance mandates, offering a benchmark for institutional scale-up.
• WRI India: India office of the World Resources Institute working on climate, agriculture, and sustainable finance policy and programmes. Comparable as an established sustainability organisation operating in India on overlapping agriculture-and-finance themes, though with a research/policy orientation rather than finance structuring.
• GIZ India: German development agency implementing bilateral programmes on climate, agriculture, and sustainable development in India. Comparable as a publicly funded agency coordinating cross-functionally between Indian government, private sector, and communities on similar themes.
• Climate Policy Initiative: Global climate finance think tank that produces data, analysis, and advisory on climate finance flows, including India-focused work. Comparable as an established player informing the same green-finance landscape SIFF operates in, with broader geographic and thematic scope.

Direct peers

• Acumen: Impact investor and not-for-profit that deploys patient capital into early-stage companies serving low-income communities in agriculture, energy, and health. Comparable as a mission-driven finance facility leveraging philanthropic and concessional capital to unlock private investment in underserved sectors.
• Convergence Blended Finance: Global blended finance platform that connects public and private capital to emerging markets, including sustainable land use. Directly comparable as a not-for-profit facility focused on designing and brokering blended finance structures to crowd in private capital for development outcomes.
• South Pole Group: Climate solutions provider and carbon asset developer that channels private finance into climate mitigation projects in agriculture, forestry, and renewables. Comparable as a revenue-generating entity that structures blended finance and project-level transactions for sustainable land use globally.
• Impact Investment Exchange (IIX): Impact enterprise that has built capital market infrastructure (e.g., IIX Women's Livelihood Bonds) to channel private capital into development outcomes in Asia. Comparable as a finance facility that uses innovative structures to mobilise private capital for SDG-aligned investments in emerging Asia.

Regional players

• India Climate Collaborative: India-focused collaborative platform that mobilises philanthropic and private capital for climate action across energy, mobility, and land use. Comparable as an India-only ecosystem-builder in the same climate finance space, with a coordinating rather than direct-investing role.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/SIFFInd
• Facebookfacebook.com/SIFFInd
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/siffindia

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Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

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