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Press Release: The ABC Fund Scales Agriculture SMEs in Kenya and Uganda With $2 Million Revolving Credit Facility for FACTS
The Agri-Business Capital (‘ABC Fund’) has signed an agreement for a $2 million revolving credit facility to FACTS Advance BV (‘FACTS’) to provide short-term trade finance solutions for SMEs in Kenya and Uganda primarily operating in the agriculture sector.
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- Agriculture, Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- financial inclusion, scale
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Indonesia’s ‘Militarized Agriculture’ Raises Social, Environmental Red Flags
Observers and activists have raised concerns about the leading role the Indonesian government plans to give to the military and to big corporations in a program to establish vast crop plantations across the country.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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Apeel Gets More Cash To Fight Poverty and Food Insecurity in Emerging Markets With Its Food-Preserving Tech
In the first real test of the potentially transformative power of its food-preserving technology, Santa Barbara, California-based Apeel Sciences is bringing its innovative food treatment and supply chain management services to distribution centers in select markets in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
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- Agriculture, Technology
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Press Release: Global Impact Investing Network Raises the Bar on the Real-World Outcomes of Impact Investing With a Focus on Impact Performance
Standardization of impact performance analytics will drive development of benchmarks and ratings.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Finance, Impact Assessment, Investing
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Sudan’s Record Wheat Harvest Is Proof That Bank Agricultural Transformation Program Will Boost Breadbasket Goal
Despite coronavirus-related lockdowns, travel and transport restrictions, Sudan has just recorded its largest wheat harvest. According to Sudanese officials, the nation saw a wheat production level of a 1.115 million-ton harvest from 315,500 hectares of farmland. That’s quite an improvement from just five years ago, when farmers in Sudan working about a quarter-million hectares of land harvested just 472,000 tons of the grain.
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- Agriculture, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Mastercard Foundation and ICCO Cooperation Partner To Strengthen the Resilience of 80,000 Farmers in Senegal
ICCO Cooperation and the Mastercard Foundation have joined forces to support smallholder farmers in Senegal who were left reeling from the impact of COVID-19. The COVID-19 Recovery and Resilience Agrifinance Project (CORRAP), co-created with Senegalese producers, aims to support smallholders to recover from the pandemic and emerge stronger and more resilient to future crises and shocks.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus, Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Bigger Sometimes Is Better When It Comes To Farm Size
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), about 90 percent of the world's 570 million farms are small and most are found in the rural areas of the developing world, but they produce food for a substantial proportion of the world's population. Many small farmers take on other economic activities to add to their small incomes.
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- Agriculture, Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Viewpoint: Why COVID-19 Impacted World Food Day 2020 Is the Time To Prioritize Investments in Food Systems
COVID-19 lockdowns and decreases in incomes have generated a double demand shock – increasing the number of poor and vulnerable people, particularly in Africa’s cities.
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- Agriculture, Coronavirus
- Tags
- food security
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