Monthly CASA Agri-Business Breakthrough Webinars
Event Information
About this Event
The 31 March 2021 webinar is Making Inclusivity Work. It explores recommendations for capital providers for achieving sustainable investments in commercial agriculture that promote inclusivity of smallholder farmers in value chains in developing countries.
The session will feature reports from the Empowering Producers in Commercial Agriculture programme on working with farmer groups, including:
• Contracts in commercial agriculture: enhancing rural producer agency;
• Socio-legal empowerment and agency of small-scale farmers in informal markets; and
• “Inclusive business” in agriculture: evidence from the evolution of agricultural value chains.
Panellists include leads from the Empowering Producers in Commercial (EPIC) Agriculture programme. After the presentations there will be around 20 minutes of questions and answers.
Who should attend?
Impact investors; development finance institutions; commercial lenders, donors and investment promotion agencies. It will also provide useful background information for agri-business companies and experts; NGOs and Think Tanks.
Wednesday 31 March 2021 at 12 (Noon) GMT. On-line.
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The Details
This series of webinars features analysis of evidence by the CASA programme and partners, designed to support the commercialisation of agriculture in emerging markets across the developing world. The series will: showcase solutions to the most common challenges in agri-business for inclusive growth and support investment facilitation in agriculture in emerging markets.
Each webinar lasts 60 minutes and take place on the last Wednesday of the month. The webinar will typically feature a combination of researchers and agri-business experts. Crucially, discussion will focus on actionable take-aways (‘breakthroughs’).
After the event you will receive a one-page briefing note which summarises all of the key discussion points. Within a few days of each event a video will be available in the events section of the CASA programme website. Any documents referenced in the webinars will be found in the evidence section of the CASA website.
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