Read against their criteriaThey hold land and want its potential.
A fund has a site and its own criteria. MORFO reads the land against them and returns a scored, decidable answer.
Turn degraded land into a project you can finance, and guarantee.
MORFO is the missing link between capital and nature. We turn degraded land into a regeneration project a fund can finance, price and guarantee, and stay the single accountable partner across its whole life.
When funds come to us.
Usually one of these three situations.
Read against their criteria
Forecast before they commitThey are about to acquire.
A fund needs the upside and the red flags before committing. MORFO forecasts what the land can produce, by which method and at what cost.
MORFO to the resultThey want to build the project with MORFO.
MORFO designs the project, coordinates the execution and shares the risk, and answers for the whole chain from the read to the contracted target.
What you get from MORFO, before, during and after.
Before
41%self-regenerating
Decidable
- To plant
- Regenerates on its own
Before you commit, decide on evidence.
A go or no-go and a costed plan your committee can back.
A fund cannot value degraded land alone, and the real risk hides in the grey area, where it surfaces late. MORFO returns a decidable read your committee can back.
How: a light first pass from satellite and data, then a field read only where it advances.
During
Method mix, zone by zone
- Natural regeneration45%
- Assisted regeneration35%
- Targeted planting20%
Several pathways, so one setback does not sink the project.
Build it at controlled cost, with the risk spread.
Comparable or better performance, at a lower total cost.
Every part of the plan is set from the read of the area, which is what spreads the risk.
- Soil corrected where the read says it is needed, across the area and not only in the planting hole.
- Method set per area: natural regeneration, assisted regeneration, targeted planting.
- Species mix chosen for the horizon of the project.
- Maintenance scheduled per area for the first three years, where the losses actually happen.
MORFO answers for the target in the contract, on the cases it covers.
Delivery vs plan
Monitored delivery, ahead of the plan
MonitoredPlan
Milestone campaigns at each gate, monitored to the MRV standard.
A result that holds, and proves itself.
Audit-ready evidence you can model and defend.
MORFO tracks an ecosystem and carbon trajectory you can put in your model. Early regeneration is measured honestly, never called a forest, and if a target is missed MORFO fixes it at its own cost.
Three reasons to work with MORFO.
01
The land, known before you invest
60,000+ hectares of data behind every forecast, so value, cost and risk are set before capital moves.
02
The right method, zone by zone
The right method for each hectare lowers the cost and spreads the risk, instead of one recipe applied everywhere.
03
Answerable for the result
The result is written into the contract and fixed at MORFO's cost.
Proof, at scale and up close.
What the method has covered across three biomes to date.
60,000+
hectares analysed
2,142
hectares under management
27
projects
3
biomes
The same land, with and without MORFO.
One area in the Cerrado. Two restoration models on the same land.
This is what a viable, investable project looks like in numbers: lower cost, protected upside, and a result under contract. One model applies a single recipe to every hectare. MORFO reads the land zone by zone, leaves what can regenerate on its own, and commits to the result.
Standard approachOne uniform recipe applied across the entire cadastral perimeter.
With MORFOZone-calibrated strategy, with natural regeneration and exclusion areas identified.
-20%
Treated surface
Natural regeneration and non-viable areas identified during diagnostic and left untreated.
-34%
Cost per hectare
Compared to the Brazilian standard market model, on the same perimeter.
0%
Extra cost if establishment fails
Corrective actions included in the contract until reaching KPIs at M+12, M+24 and M+36.
Illustrative case, reconstructed from public references.
Cost per hectare, indexed
-34%Standard approach100
With MORFO66
Where the −34% comes from
-15 to 20%
Early identification of non-plantable zones
About 20% of the farm is kept in natural regeneration or excluded from intervention. The standard model treats 100% of the perimeter, including zones where natural regeneration would be more effective than planting.
-8 to 17%
Zone-by-zone intensity calibration
On the planted area, each operation is adjusted zone by zone. Less herbicide where invasive pressure is low. Fewer seedlings where regeneration is already active. Less subsoiling where soil is loose.
-5 to 10%
Contractual risk transfer
In the MORFO model, corrective actions up to M+36 are included in the price. In the standard model, the replanting guarantee stops at 20% mortality; above that, the client pays again to correct.
Activity by activity
Standard approachWith MORFO
Index, base 100 = standard model. Lower is cheaper.
- Machinery use-45%
- Soil preparation-45%
- Manual weeding-42%
- Field labor-40%
- Seedlings-38%
- Planting fertilization-37%
- Hydrogel-37%
- Chemical weeding-35%
- Treated surface-20%
- Ant control-20%
- Replanting (M+12)-100%
The overall figure is not the average of these lines. Each activity counts in proportion to its share of the total cost, so the activities that weigh most on a budget move the total most. The shares themselves are specific to this project and are not published.
The two models, side by side
| Standard approach | With MORFO | |
|---|---|---|
| Who produces the diagnostic | Client or external consultant | MORFO, included in the contract |
| Decision unit | Cadastral perimeter | Operational zone |
| Planting recipe | Single, uniform | Calibrated per zone |
| Areas in natural regeneration | Treated like the rest | Identified and excluded |
| Default density | 1,111 seedlings/ha | Calibrated per zone (0 to 1,600 seedlings/ha) |
| What is billed | The activities performed | The result achieved |
| Who pays if the forest doesn't establish | The client | MORFO |
| Contractual commitment | Compliance with the plan | KPIs at M+12, M+24, M+36 |
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Illustrative case reconstituted from public sector references. The standard model is calibrated on public technical proposals and the pricing grids of established forest restoration providers in Brazil. The MORFO model is based on the methodology applied to comparable sites in the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest. The figures are specific to this perimeter; your farm may differ depending on biome, size, soil condition, and land-use history.
Turn degraded land into a project that holds.
Send us an area. We will tell you if it is viable, and how.