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Celebrating its 10-year anniversary, Big Path Capital is pleased to announce the 9th annual Impact Capitalism Summit and 3rd in Nantucket – the largest convening of investors focused on maximizing impact and maximizing return across asset classes.

This Summit will focus on key factors that are changing the impact investing landscape.  The biggest transfer of wealth in human history has started. Over the next 35 years as an unprecedented $58.7 trillion dollars of wealth transfers to women and millennials.  Women will inherit 70% of this wealth. By 2030, two thirds of the wealth in the United States will be in women’s hands.   Lastly, women and millennials factor a company’s social and environmental impact into their investing decisions at a dramatically higher rate.  This confluence of factors will drive change and growth in the sector.  Come be part of this exciting journey.

Join members of the Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance (CSAF) for this year’s “State of the Sector” webinar, which will coincide with the publication of CSAF’s annual report.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 2017 AT 10:00 – 11:00 AM EDT

Drawing upon data and insights from the portfolios of eleven CSAF members and affiliates, our discussion will focus on the evolving credit market for agricultural SMEs, including:

• Growth and risk trends from 2016
• Market outlook for 2017 and beyond
• What’s needed to grow the sector and expand impact
• Q&A

Featured participants:

• Gaëlle Bonnieux, Head Agriculture Debt Financing, responsAbility Investments
• Hugo Couderé, Senior Adviser, Alterfin
• Brian Milder, Executive Vice President, Root Capital

Formally established in 2014, CSAF convenes the world’s leading agricultural lenders to exchange ideas, identify best practices, and develop industry standards. Its members are focused on creating a thriving, sustainable, and transparent financial market to serve the financing needs of agricultural SMEs in low- and middle-income countries.

In 2016, the eleven lenders that comprise CSAF issued loans totaling a combined $682 million to over 750 business across 65 countries. This financing helped to fuel an estimated $7.6 billion in combined annual revenue for these businesses, which connected 2.3 million smallholder farmers to local and international markets.

CSAF thanks its data partner MIX and its funding partners the Mastercard Foundation and the Small Foundation for their support.