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Press Release: John Deere Foundation Announces $19 Million in Grants Aimed At Eliminating Global Hunger
The John Deere Foundation announced a series of grants totaling $19 million aimed at eliminating hunger by increasing access to food, uplifting resource-constrained farmers, and supporting global food systems.
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- Agriculture, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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AFEX Raises $26.5 Million to Address Food Security in Nigeria, Kenya, and Uganda
Supporting smallholder farmers to achieve a fair wage is vital to ensure they remain in operation, producing more and higher quality crops for local consumption.
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- Agriculture, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Scaling Climate Finance for Smallholder Agriculture: Lessons Learned from Partnering with Farmer-Allied Businesses
Small-scale agriculture supports the livelihoods of more than 600 million families and generates over 40% of jobs in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Yet as Elizabeth Teague at Root Capital points out, agricultural livelihoods are highly vulnerable to climate change, and smallholder farmers receive just 1.7% of global climate financing. She discusses how Root Capital is working with farmer-allied enterprises to help close this gap, sharing what they’ve learned about how to design and scale climate financing for smallholder communities.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Investing
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Investing In Local Farmers To Build Food Sovereignty for Haiti
Inflation is leading families to cut back on meals and farmers to cut back on seeds and fertilizers.
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- Agriculture, Environment
- Region
- Latin America
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Press Release: MCE Social Capital Announces the Final Close of Its Mesa Fund to Target Gender-Inclusive Agri-Businesses in Africa and Latin America
The investment rationale: expanding the potential of early-stage entrepreneurs and rural financial services providers.
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- Agriculture, Investing
- Region
- Global
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ABC Fund Invests €800,000 into Ugandan Coffee Supplier JKCC
The ABC Fund is a blended-finance impact fund which provides catalytic financing to underserved yet profitable segments of agribusiness value chains in developing countries.
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- Agriculture
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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The Rockefeller Foundation and the Asian Institute of Technology Partner To Drive Climate-Resilient Agriculture Solutions in Southeast Asia
The collaboration aligns with The Rockefeller Foundation’s US$1 billion climate strategy, focusing on scientific action to address climate change and promote human opportunity.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Global
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Agricultural Insurance + Energy Access: An Innovative Pilot Program Reveals the Value of Bundled Services — And the Need for Cross-Sector Partnerships
As the world works to achieve SDG7, it's becoming clear that cross-sector partnerships will be key to meeting its goal of affordable, sustainable energy for all by 2030. Anshul Patel at Bboxx — a leading distributor of pay-as-you-go solar energy products — shares learnings from the company's recent partnership with Pula, an agri-insurance technology firm, which insured Bboxx customers against the climate-related crop failures that can lead to payment defaults and repossession of their energy products.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Finance, Technology
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