Enquiry on sustainable finance: findings and recommendations
Can donors and public funds be more catalytic? Can blended capital be a critical strategy to increase investment in food systems?
Official development assistance (ODA) grants is one of the major sources of finance in the global effort to eradicate hunger sustainably and achieve SDG 2.
However, current development finance is insufficient to fill the estimated US$33 billion to US$50 billion per year public investment gap needed to achieve SDG 2 by 2030. The issue is clear: donors need new ways to make their financing more catalytic to bring in commercial financing from development finance institutions (DFIs) and the private sector.
According to our new report published with the Global Donor Platform for Rural Development (GDPRD), every donor dollar has the potential to mobilize four dollars in commercial finance. When this happens:
small and medium-sized producers in the agriculture and food sectors will have more financing
domestic lenders will participate
markets will deliver affordable borrowing prices
This is the catalytic power of aid.
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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?