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Swiss Impact Investor ResponsAbility Raises $106 Million for Climate-Smart Agriculture and Food Fund
ResponsAbility said this investment solution aims to provide long-term financing to innovative agribusinesses.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Global
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- climate change, MSMEs, SDGs
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An Agricultural Value Chain Bears Fruit: How Adopting a New Crop Helped Boost the Prosperity and Climate Resilience of Cambodian Farmers
Improving the performance of agricultural value chains will be crucial to emerging countries' efforts to end poverty and hunger, boost shared prosperity, and adapt to climate change. To that end, an iDE program is supporting Cambodian farmers as they transition to growing melons and other new crops, by helping to build market systems that support the sale of these products. Simon Crittle at iDE explores how the program is enabling farmers to navigate changes in the market — and in the climate.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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India’s Climate-Focused VC Firm Avaana Capital Raises $70 Million
The fund will focus on investments in three sectors - energy transition and resource management; mobility and supply chains; and sustainable agriculture and food systems.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Technology, Transportation
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- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: Malawi Secures $4.4 Million in Funding From the Global Environment Facility Towards Building Climate Resilience in the Lake Chilwa Basin
The five-year project, known as ‘TRANSFORM’, aims to enhance the resilience of vulnerable rural communities by bolstering their natural, human, and economic adaptive capacities.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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Analysis: As Africa Loses Forest, Its Small Farmers Are Bringing Back Trees
The loss of forests across Africa has long been documented. But recent studies show that small farmers from Senegal to Ethiopia to Malawi are allowing trees to regenerate on their lands, resulting in improved crop yields, productive fruit harvests, and a boost for carbon storage.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Heifer International, EthicHub Invest $420,000 to Improve Financial Access for Smallholder Coffee Farmers in Mexico
The investment will improve financial access for smallholder coffee farmers in Mexico through the EthicHub Regenerative Finance (ReFi) platform.
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- Agriculture, Finance, Investing
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- Latin America
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Report: Child Labourers Are The Unseen Victims Of Climate Change
Child labour affects roughly 160 million children globally with African agriculture at the epicentre.
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- Agriculture, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Nestlé Partners With VC Fund to Invest in Sustainable Startups in Latin America
The plan is to back nascent agri-food industry businesses to find technology solutions in food production and agricultural methods.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Latin America