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The #agriculture sector is the backbone of society, and its development holds great potential to uplift #smallholderfarmers. While past approaches to agricultural growth were often government-led and farmer-focused, the role of #inclusivebusiness models has become crucial in driving #sustainable transformation.🌱 Recognizing this, United Nations ESCAP, in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, launched the “Regional Inclusive Business Models in Agriculture and Food Systems” initiative in #India, #Thailand, and #Vietnam. 🌾 This initiative, recently featured in the "Seeding the Future: Transforming Smallholder Farms for a Sustainable Tomorrow" report by Centre for Impact Investing and Practices (CIIP) and Wavemaker Impact, with support from the Philanthropy Asia Alliance, aimed to: 🔹Accelerate the adoption of innovative business models 🔹Promote inclusive agricultural transformation by enhancing access to technologies, services, and platforms 🔹Create above-market-rate income opportunities for marginalized communities 🔹Support governments in delivering affordable, essential services that lift people out of poverty at scale 📘Access the report here: https://lnkd.in/guxGQp7h 🔗Learn more about ESCAP's work on promoting inclusive business: https://lnkd.in/gF_AgHJ3

The Centre for Impact Investing and Practices (CIIP), a non-profit established by Temasek Trust, has partnered with Wavemaker Impact, supported by Philanthropy Asia Alliance, to publish the report “Seeding the Future: Transforming Smallholder Farms for a Sustainable Tomorrow”. 👨🌾 With a myriad of challenges such as rising population growth, growing demand for food, low land productivity, and environmental pressures, solutions must be tailor-built and scaled for #smallholders in Southeast Asia. The report includes insights from more than 30 organisations – including Co-Axis #impact opportunities MAYANI and Fairventures Social Forestry. 🌲 Paul Schüller, CEO of Fairventures Social Forestry, highlights their efforts to support smallholders build their co-operative capabilities and reduce their reliance on middlemen. 🌲 JT Solis, Co-founder and CEO of Mayani, shares the work they do to uplift smallerholder incomes via a Business-to-Business (B2B) model 🌟 Innovative models to deploying #philanthropic, blended, and #impact capital can pave the way for funding to amplify effective solutions that support smallholder farmers, and accelerate the adoption of more sustainable agricultural practices. 💡 Learn more in the report: https://lnkd.in/guxGQp7h

Southeast Asia is expected to become the world's fourth-largest economy by 2030. As it continues along its trajectory of growth, the region will experience rapid demographic and economic shifts. Food consumption is expected to increase by 40% by 2050, further intensifying demand for agricultural products.     However, Southeast Asia’s agri-food system remains fragile. It faces fragmented smallholder farms, outdated farming practices, environmental degradation, and volatility brought upon by climate change. The combination of these issues needs to be addressed urgently.     The Centre for Impact Investing and Practices (CIIP), a non-profit established by Temasek Trust, has partnered with Wavemaker Impact, supported by Philanthropy Asia Alliance, to publish the report “Seeding the Future: Transforming Smallholder Farms for a Sustainable Tomorrow”: https://lnkd.in/guxGQp7h   More than 30 organisations – including impact investors and philanthropic organisations, solution providers, development programme owners and regional and international organisations – contributed their insights.   Key takeaways from the report include:   💡 Solutions need to be right-sized, right-priced, and targeted well.  💡 Impact should be at the core of all investing decisions. 💡 More investment needs to go toward the agriculture, food, and land use sectors. 💡 Cross-sector collaborations are crucial to break the cycle.   🌟 We invite you to reach out to us if you would like to work together on seeding the future for a sustainable tomorrow! #CIIP #WavemakerImpact #PAA #SIAW2024 #SustainableAgriculture #SmallholderFarmers

🧑🌾 Smallholder farmers are at the heart of Southeast Asia’s agricultural sector. Addressing the dual goals of regenerating our food systems and improving the resilience of smallholders in the region is not impossible. Many compelling, effective, and contextually sound solutions already exist today – what is missing is intentional, targeted financing. Catalytic financing from across the spectrum of capital, including the private, public, and philanthropic sectors, is crucial to supporting the development and growth of key solutions that cater to specific, day-to-day needs and ground challenges that smallholder farmers face. Together, we can create a sustainable tomorrow for all. 💡 Learn more in the report: https://lnkd.in/guxGQp7h The Centre for Impact Investing and Practices (CIIP) is a non-profit established by Temasek Trust to foster impact investing and practices in Asia and beyond. The Philanthropy Asia Alliance is a Temasek Trust initiative dedicated to catalysing collaborative philanthropy in Asia through dynamic multi-sector partnerships.

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By 2030, Southeast Asia is set to become the world's fourth-largest economy, with food consumption expected to grow 40% by 2050 🍽. But the region’s agri-food system remains fragile; fragmented smallholder farms, outdated farming practices, environmental degradation and volatility from climate change are all urgent challenges to address.   To explore pathways forward, #WavemakerImpact partnered with the Centre for Impact Investing and Practices (CIIP) – a non-profit established by Temasek Trust – with support from Philanthropy Asia Alliance, to publish “Seeding the Future: Transforming Smallholder Farms for a Sustainable Tomorrow” 📖. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/gyfMV43d Drawing from 26 interviews with solution providers, investors and corporates, the report demonstrates how Wavemaker Impact’s Carbon Maps can identify high-impact opportunities for emission reduction. It also includes over 15 case studies of how forward-thinking practitioners – 4 of which are Wavemaker Partners portcos (Rize, RegenX, Agros, FoodMap) – are effecting meaningful transformation across the region today.  Key takeaways from the report include: 💡 Solutions must be right-sized, right-priced and targeted well. 💡 Impact should be core to all investing decisions. 💡 Agriculture, food, and land use sectors need more funding. 💡 Cross-sector collaborations are crucial to break the cycle.  🌟 Are you an entrepreneur passionate about transforming Southeast Asia’s agriculture? Let’s connect! Quentin Vaquette | Ben Ong | Amanda Chen | Sneha Vasudev #CIIP #PAA #SIAW2024 #SustainableAgriculture #SmallholderFarmers #ClimateTech

Southeast Asia is expected to become the world's fourth-largest economy by 2030. As it continues along its trajectory of growth, the region will experience rapid demographic and economic shifts. Food consumption is expected to increase by 40% by 2050, further intensifying demand for agricultural products. However, Southeast Asia’s agri-food system remains fragile. It faces fragmented smallholder farms, outdated farming practices, environmental degradation, and volatility brought upon by climate change. The combination of these issues needs to be addressed urgently. The Centre for Impact Investing and Practices (CIIP), a non-profit established by Temasek Trust, has partnered with Wavemaker Impact, supported by Philanthropy Asia Alliance, to publish the report “Seeding the Future: Transforming Smallholder Farms for a Sustainable Tomorrow”: https://lnkd.in/guxGQp7h Proximity Finance contributed our insights to the report alongside over 30 organisations – including impact investors and philanthropic organisations, solution providers, development programme owners and regional and international organisations. Agros | Rize | Grow Asia | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | The Rockefeller Foundation Key takeaways from the report include: 💡 Solutions need to be right-sized, right-priced, and targeted well. 💡 Impact should be at the core of all investing decisions. 💡 More investment needs to go toward the agriculture, food, and land use sectors. 💡 Cross-sector collaborations are crucial to break the cycle. #Proximity_Finance #SustainableAgriculture #SmallholderFarmers

We are delighted to announce that our joint #policybrief with Instituto Escolhas (Brazil) was selected and published within the framework of the #T20 (Think20), the network of Think Tanks of the #G20 in the run-up to the G20 Brasil 2024 Leaders Summit that will take place in Rio de Janeiro on November 18-19. This policy brief is co-authored by our senior associate, Prof. Hafsa EL Bekri, PhD, HDR, along with Dr. Juliana Luiz, the Project Manager from the Escolhas Institute in Brazil, and Jaqueline da Luz Ferreira, the Portfolio Manager at the same institute. It addresses the crucial topic of "Repurposing and Leveraging Agricultural Financing Towards a Just, Sustainable, and Healthy Transition of Agrifood Systems in The Global South."  The policy brief underscores the pressing need for G20 Brasil 2024 countries to tackle the global challenge of #climate transition, while acknowledging the uneven impacts of #food production and consumption patterns when comparing the global North and South. It emphasizes two distinct yet complementary opportunities for countries in the global South to make substantial progress on this critical transition. The first opportunity lies in the strategic repurposing of public support. This involves designing and implementing better financing standards, allocating resources according to well-defined transition criteria, preparing comprehensive transition plans, and fostering a multi-stakeholder governance framework. The second opportunity lies in leveraging a robust #financingsystem that can enable and sustain the transition. This includes investing in key areas such as adaptable technologies, improving data collection and analysis, and facilitating the sharing of best practices among stakeholders. The policy brief's comprehensive approach recognizes the complex challenges faced by the global South in navigating the transition, while also highlighting the immense potential and opportunities that exist. Find out more on https://lnkd.in/eu7xdRzF https://lnkd.in/ddyTst_E #globalsouth #agriculutre #financing

How can we overcome power dynamics for lasting food systems transformation?    Power differentials are often identified as a barrier to achieving the deep collaboration that is needed for lasting transformation. These could happen between producing and consuming countries, or different levels of government within countries.    In efforts to transform food and agricultural commodity systems, power differentials are a significant force.    “Power and conflict are on the mind of a lot of practitioners, many of whom have common experiences and the drive to address these issues, but are not often given the space to speak to them directly, and to find inspiration and mutual support via peers to change the status quo” said UNDP’s Sophia Robele.    The UNDP's Food and Agricultural Commodity Systems team has convened over the last few years a Co-Inquiry Group of sustainability practitioners—a powerhouse of experts from United Nations agencies, universities, donors, NGOs, and governments in order to explore aspects of multi-stakeholder collaboration.    This combined effort emphasises the role of diversity in thought and action when dealing with power dynamics. It reinforces the significance of trust, effective facilitation, and embracing discomfort in steering transformative change.    Read full blog: https://lnkd.in/dgVs6Q8s 

To view the Impact Report by Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU) for the years 2021 and 2024, please view below ⬇ . To further elaborate, there is an Impact Story on Shifting agricultural policy in India. Food and Land Use Coalition - FOLU India

Since 2017, the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU) has been working to unlock stronger #FoodSystems outcomes for people 👩🌾, nature 🌿 and climate 🌦 Ahead of 2025, when FOLU will enter its third phase, we’ve produced our first Impact Report. The report provides a snapshot of FOLU’s efforts over the past three and a half years, told through nine impact stories. Each story brings to life how our Coalition catalyzes change across the different contexts we operate in. Explore the report to find out how we’ve been…    🧠 Mainstreaming food systems thinking  🤝 Building movements for change in Colombia   🌱 Scaling regenerative agriculture in Ethiopia  🌾 Accelerating eco-regional approaches in Indonesia  👨🌾 Unlocking sustainable and inclusive agricultural policies in India   💵 Driving finance to Nature-based Solutions  💼 Mobilizing business action on climate  🌽 Catalyzing Brazilian leadership on food  🔗 Linking global ambition with local action A special note of thanks goes out to our funding partners – without their support this valuable work would not have been possible! Learn what food systems transformation looks like in practice and how FOLU delivers impactful outcomes 👇 https://lnkd.in/dxZAfN6Z