126 attract considerable attention in the decades to come. These developments will have greatest effect at the Food Valley level and somewhat less at that of the Binnenveld region, given the optimum scale of the systems from the perspective of economic efficiency. Fund As stated in the introduction, this study examined various options for generating income from biomass in the Binnenveld region, of which the establishment of an investment fund emerged as the most interesting. This fund would facilitate investments in bio-energy projects. The revenue from such projects would then be repaid into the fund, with any profit used for landscape maintenance. This funding flow should primarily be used to increase the availability of biomass and to strengthen the bio-energy chain. The concept of a combined investment and landscape management fund is shown in the diagram below. Structure of the Binnenveld Fund. • Professional management. The fund must be managed by a party with experience and expertise in this field. The management costs • A large and broad portfolio of bio-energy projects. This is essential to ensure sufficient volume and an adequate spread of risks. It should be paid out of the revenue from the fund itself. • Strong commitment on the part of the financing partners – the provincial authorities, the banks and the National Green Fund – in seems unlikely that the Binnenveld alone will offer an adequate number of projects. The target area of the fund should therefore be expanded to include all of Food Valley, and the fund should address a broad and diverse portfolio of sustainability projects. • The smaller Binnenveld fund is not considered a viable option. The other option, which addresses sustainability in a broader context the form of an initial capital deposit (‘seeding’). and covers the entire Food Valley, offers far greater potential. It represents an interesting means of linking bio-energy activities to an improvement in the quality of the landscape. The viability of this concept is heavily dependent on a number of factors, as confirmed by the cashflow analysis of two possible variants. The first allows for a relatively small fund covering only the Binnenveld region, while the second is of greater volume and has a larger target area. The critical factors are: Pagina 136
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