EDFI AgriFI - The Agriculture Financing Initiative.pptx

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EDFI AgriFI - The Agriculture Financing Initiative
• An impact investment facility in sustainable
agriculture and forestry, created in 2018
• 100% financed by the European Commission
• Supporting smallholders on their path to commercial & sustainable
farming
• In developing countries (OECD DAC)
• Aiming to unlock, accelerate and leverage investments
• Throughout the entire agriculture value chain
EDFI AgriFI is one of the EU development instruments aiming to invest in sustainable
agriculture projects with high impact on smallholders
EDFI AgriFI is managed by EDFI MC, on behalf of the 15 bilateral European
development finance institutions

EDFI AgriFI - invests through 3 types of investees

EDFI AgriFI – offering: Small ticket size, long-term financing
and technical assistance support
• Tickets size: 0.5 to 5 m€ investments*
• Medium-long term tenor: 5 - 10+ years (min. 3)
• Flexible instruments: junior/senior debt, quasi-equity, equity
• Sectors: agricultural and forestry value chain
• Additionality & catalyst role: additional to other market players and
catalysing additional investments
• Flexible commercial terms (e.g. local currency, grace period,…)
• Ad hoc technical assistance support, for EDFI AgriFI investees

EDFI AgriFI - so far invested EUR ~22 m into 8 investees

EDFI AgriFI - Next step: customizing investment
strategies to the geographies with new facilities

EDFI AgriFI- investment process: - a standard 2 steps
approval to contracting, with an onsite due diligence

agrifi@edfimc.eu
Rue du Trône 4
BE-1000 Brussels
www.agrifi.eu

Agrifi is a new initiative that increases investment in smallholder agriculture and agribusiness micro/ small/medium enterprises (MSMEs) to achieve inclusive and sustainable agricultural growth. Agrifi will be launched in 2016, together with interested parties and European Financial Institutions. A central feature of Agrifi is that the provision of EU grants will mobilise additional public and private investment. This additional investment is needed to enhance the development impact of investment projects and achieve impact at scale. Agrifi responds to the lack of financing mechanisms adapted to farmers and agri-entrepreneurs, particularly for smallholders and agribusiness MSMEs. Agrifi will be backed-up by a robust component of technical assistance and value chains analysis capacity, to support decision making on investment, to enhance business development and advisory services for farmers and agri-entrepreneurs and to monitor the actions for accountability purposes. Agrifi addresses this situation by providing greater risk-bearing capacity through public money, to encourage project promoters and attract private finance to viable investments which would not have happened otherwise. Agrifi is therefore about addressing a market failure and it finances those actions that have a clear development impact on those who would normally not be reached. This includes smallholders with limited market orientation, vulnerable farmers, women and young farmers and entrepreneurs

On Friday 3 July, ECDPM’s Francesco Rampa gave a presentation during the 'Save the Children’ event at the Milan Expo 2015. He talked about the role of the private sector and public-private partnerships in the agriculture, nutrition and food security sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa. In October 2009, Save the Children launched “Every One”, a large international campaign to put a stop to child mortality and make a substantial contribution towards the 4th Millennium Development Goal which is to reduce child mortality by two thirds by 2015. The fight against malnutrition – contributing to over 45 percent of all childhood deaths under the age of five – is a central element in the work of Save the Children, as well as education on a healthy diet that can provide adequate nutrition to children from the day they are born, and to their mothers. Participation in Expo Milano 2015 is an important step in drawing the attention of institutions to these issues and to raise visitors’ awareness about the causes and effects of malnutrition, reflecting on the challenges and the most effective solutions. Save the Children participates in Expo 2015 through a series of activities, workshops, and educational courses aimed at children and adults to explore – within the Expo Site – the topics of nutrition and malnutrition and of agricultural development that is nutrition-sensitive. The Expo provides Save the Children with an opportunity to discuss the issues of hunger and nutrition in the context of defining the new post-2015 development agenda of the United Nations.

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