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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
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: International Fund for Agricultural Development and Malawi to Build Resilience and Productivity of Small-Scale Farmers and MSMEs amid Ongoing Crisis
Agriculture is the country’s main economic activity, accounting for 30 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 80 per cent of its export earnings.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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UN- Kenya has Allocated $134 Million to Improve Farmers’ Access
The facility will feature a rural credit guarantee system that will help reduce the perceived and real risks associated with agricultural value chain lending.
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- Agriculture, Finance
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Goodwell Supports Agricultural Innovation in West Africa with Complete Farmer Investment
CF’s insights give farmers an advantage from the start, introducing modern farming techniques and data-driven cultivation protocols to improve productivity and reduce post-harvest losses.
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- Agriculture, Investing, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Tags
- agtech, data, innovation, smallholder farmers
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Brazilian Startup Nagro Raises $49 Million
In total, Nagro has granted over $60M in credit to more than 5,000 rural producers and farmers.
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- Investing, Technology
- Region
- Latin America
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