Innovative funding: leveraging public funds to catalyse private capital and achieve SDG 2
If donors and development finance institutions (DFIs) take higher risks with their grants and lending, every donor dollar has the potential to mobilise four dollars in commercial finance. When this happens, agrifood small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will have more financing, domestic lenders will participate, and markets will deliver affordable borrowing prices
This is one of the key findings and recommendations from our enquiry, Unleashing the Catalytic Power of Donor Financing to Achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2, published with the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD).
These findings and recommendations have joined the public discussion. They have been widely echoed by officials during the launch of the UN’s State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2024 (SOFI 2024) with the Director-General of the FAO calling for “greater financial coordination between partners, increased activities to de-risk the agrifood sector and more blended financing.”
For more technical details, including case studies, information about financing mechanisms, and further inputs from the stakeholders interviewed, a complementary Technical note is also available.
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Editorial in Devex on blended finance
The recommendations from our joint report with the GDPRD, Unleashing the Catalytic Power of Donor Financing to Achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2, have been highlighted in an editorial written by GDPRD Co-Chairs Bruce Campbell and Federica de Gaetano and published in Devex.
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Modelling the additional investment needed to end hunger: Why are the cost estimates so wildly different?
A review of eight recent modelling reports of the additional investment needed for achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2) by 2030 reveals a wide range of estimates; from a total of USD 86 billion to over USD 4 trillion. This results in confusion for governments, donors and policy makers.
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Webinar with GDPRD: Financing Food and Rural Development
The Shamba Centre co-hosted a webinar with the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD) to discuss the recently released SOFI 2024 report and its implications for donors and development partners.
Co-Founder Oshani Perera participated in the panel and discussed the need for structural reforms to ease the ability of domestic banks to lend to farmers supplying domestic markets.
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Beyond SOFI 2024: Five innovative ideas to finance food security and nutrition
We welcome that SOFI 2024 re-opens the global debate on the fundamentals of financing food security and nutrition and echoes many of our recommendations from our enquiry on sustainable finance conducted with the GDPRD.
However we can be even bolder.
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Unleashing the catalytic power of donor finance to achieve SDG 2
Every dollar of donor finance has the potential to mobilise four dollars in commercial finance. This a key finding from a new report published with the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD). This report presents the four key findings and recommendations of an enquiry into sustainable finance in agrifood systems conducted in 2023
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Innovation in agri-food systems
The consultation draft of our enquiry with the GDPRD on sustainable finance is open for comment.
Unleashing the Catalytic Power of Donor Financing to Achieve SDG 2
The enquiry explored how donors can be bolder with their financing to increase development impacts while crowding-in development finance institutions and private investors.
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Innovative approaches to sustainable finance for food systems
The Shamba Centre for Food & Climate, together with the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development, presented the results of new research on how donors can develop value-added partnerships with public and private funders to drive investment in smallholder commercial agriculture.
This official CFS Side Event took place on 23 October from 13h30 to 14h45 CET.
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UNFSS+2 virtual side-event on innovative donor approaches to sustainable finance
The Shamba Centre for Food & Climate, together with the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD), organized a UN FSS+2 virtual side-event entitled Innovative donor approaches to sustainable finance for food system transformation. It took place on Monday, 24 July from 18h00-19h00 CET.
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How can donors make their funding more catalytic?
This is the million-dollar question that the Global Donor Platform on Rural Development (GDPRD) seeks to answer through its timely stakeholder consultation on sustainable finance.
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Unpacking the debt-swap for the Galápagos Islands
With the balance sheets of the IMF and World Bank being extremely strained with the debt of developing nations, expectations around debt swaps are rising. But what are the implications?