Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 9:00 AM- 10:30 AM (EST) Opening remarks:
Parmesh Shah, Global Lead, Data-drive Digital Agriculture, Agriculture and Food Global Practice, The World Bank
Dan Haglund, Senior Private Sector Adviser in the Agriculture Research Team of UK FCDO
Presentation from Acumen and Busara to present the report:
Dan Waldron, Head of Ideas at Acumen
Morgan Kabeer, Senior Associate, Busara Center for Behavioral Economics
Discussants:
Dave Ellis, Cofounder and managing director of Flow Equity
Tamer El-Raghy, Managing Director of the Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund, to provide another impact investing perspective
William Sutton, Global Lead for Climate Smart Agriculture, Agriculture and Food Global Practice, The World Bank
Vinay Vutukuru, Senior Agriculture Economist, Agriculture and Food Global Practice, The World Bank
Join Acumen, the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) for an exciting webinar that will present farmers’ perspectives on climate change, resilience, and the new crop of agricultural platforms that are bundling digital services with physical inputs to serve smallholders. Across Africa, entrepreneurs are helping smallholder farmers become more resilient to the effects of climate change. Agribusinesses that offer multiple products and services – including financial and technology platforms, vertically integrated platforms, and land aggregators - have the potential to greatly improve climate resilience among smallholder farmers, whose dependence on rainfed agriculture makes them particularly vulnerable to variations in weather. However, these agribusinesses are early-stage social ventures with limited working capital and operate in environments with generally poor transportation and telecommunication infrastructure.
With funding from the FCDO’s Strengthening Impact Investing Markets for Agriculture Programme, pioneer impact investor Acumen, in partnership with Busara, conducted a qualitative study on the enablers and barriers to adopting climate resilient agriculture practices among smallholder farmers. The research focused on customers of agriculture platform companies. Findings from this work are detailed in a report that amplifies the voice of smallholder farmers coping with climate change; sheds light on important considerations for agribusinesses and other stakeholders that seek to make these farmers more resilient; and helps direct investments into these businesses accordingly. Recommendations are relevant to both platform companies and investors/donors and will contribute to delivering the action agenda laid out by Transforming Agricultural Innovation for People, Nature and Climate campaign, co-chaired by FCDO and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture & Food Security (CCAFS), in the lead up to COP26.
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RESILIENT FARMERS INVESTING to OVERCOME the CLIMATE CRISIS
Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 9:00 AM- 10:30 AM (EST)
Opening remarks:
Parmesh Shah, Global Lead, Data-drive Digital Agriculture, Agriculture and Food Global Practice, The World Bank
Dan Haglund, Senior Private Sector Adviser in the Agriculture Research Team of UK FCDO
Presentation from Acumen and Busara to present the report:
Dan Waldron, Head of Ideas at Acumen
Morgan Kabeer, Senior Associate, Busara Center for Behavioral Economics
Discussants:
Dave Ellis, Cofounder and managing director of Flow Equity
Tamer El-Raghy, Managing Director of the Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund, to provide another impact investing perspective
William Sutton, Global Lead for Climate Smart Agriculture, Agriculture and Food Global Practice, The World Bank
Vinay Vutukuru, Senior Agriculture Economist, Agriculture and Food Global Practice, The World Bank
With funding from the FCDO’s Strengthening Impact Investing Markets for Agriculture Programme, pioneer impact investor Acumen, in partnership with Busara, conducted a qualitative study on the enablers and barriers to adopting climate resilient agriculture practices among smallholder farmers. The research focused on customers of agriculture platform companies. Findings from this work are detailed in a report that amplifies the voice of smallholder farmers coping with climate change; sheds light on important considerations for agribusinesses and other stakeholders that seek to make these farmers more resilient; and helps direct investments into these businesses accordingly. Recommendations are relevant to both platform companies and investors/donors and will contribute to delivering the action agenda laid out by Transforming Agricultural Innovation for People, Nature and Climate campaign, co-chaired by FCDO and the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture & Food Security (CCAFS), in the lead up to COP26.
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