Finance

Agriculture is one of the sectors with the highest adaptation finance needs for implementing the Nationally Determined Contributions (or national climate plans), but climate finance for adaptation is on a downward trend.

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Finance

Efforts to enhance rural financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa is of great importance. The digitalisation of agricultural financing presents a promising path, hindered, however, by the limited expertise of certain…

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Finance

In Cameroon, there are still significant problems with access to finance in rural areas. Women are the most affected group. Why is this? A study has shown that the causes are to be found in both the supply of and demand…

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Finance

Ambitious climate adaptation can enhance resilience and head off losses and damages. As climate impacts accelerate, the finance gap for adaptation efforts turns to be at least 50 per cent bigger than thought.

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The World Bank will in future offer stronger financing incentives for projects that benefit not only individual countries but the whole world – ranging from climate action projects to preserving biodiversity and pandemic…

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Finance

Millions of people in north-eastern Nigeria suffer from violence perpetrated by Islamic militias. The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) supports highly vulnerable households in Yobe with small cash…

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Finance

Forum Environment and Development’s mid-July event in its series "Trafotalk – Gespräche zu Transformativer Finanzpolitik" (Talks on Transformative Financial Policy) addressed the IMF Special Drawing Rights.

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Finance

Experts call for more and longer-term funding to tackle systemic causes of hunger and break the cycle of emergency food aid.

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Finance

A toolkit helps small and medium-sized agricultural enterprises get access to finance. It supports field technicians working with rural entrepreneurs, putting them on track to grow their businesses.

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Finance

While the topic of agrofinance is essential to the context of mechanisation, it is all too often neglected, or at least insufficiently addressed. Our author gives an account of his experiences as an independent…

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