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April 15, 2024 | ImpactAlpha
The Brief: Catalyzing climate resilience for small farmers

Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Adaptation Finance For these tech startups and investors, the next big thing is climate adaptation …

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Featured: Adaptation Finance

For these tech startups and investors, the next big thing is climate adaptation for smallholder farmers. In India, Mati Carbon is providing smallholder farmers with crop inputs that fertilize plants and sequester carbon. In Kenya, SunCulture is helping farmers access solar irrigation systems to mitigate unpredictable rain patterns. And in Myanmar, Proximity is working to give rice farmers an alternative to the toxic practice of field burning. Climate-smart innovations are helping some of the world’s 500 million smallholder farmers adapt to climate changes and improve their livelihoods; they are needed by many more. "There is a wealth of ways that agrifood tech can assist with climate adaptation,” says Louisa Burwood-Taylor of AgFunder, author of a new report, “Financing adaptation pathways,” with ISF Advisors. "Even investors who haven’t typically engaged in agriculture and food can find opportunities that are a fit.” 

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New York Life acquires stake in minority-owned Fairview Capital. Fairview Capital, a minority-owned investment management firm that backs diverse and emerging fund managers, has invested over $10 billion on behalf of public and private pension plans, foundations, endowments and other institutional investors since 1994. The investment from New York Life Insurance Co. “will create even more opportunities for Fairview,” said Larry Morse, who co-founded Connecticut-based Fairview with JoAnn Price. “This includes accelerating our growth and expanding our investing with the industry’s foremost venture capital firms, along with the leading diverse and emerging fund managers,” Morse said. Price and Morse will retain majority ownership of Fairview, alongside partners Kola Olofinboba, Alan Mattamana, Aakar Vachhani and Kwesi Quaye. 

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Elevating impact reporting to raise the performance of impact fund managers. “One million lives touched.” “800 jobs created.” “50,000 acres of land restored.” Punchy headlines populate the impact reports that fund managers provide to their investors and capital allocators. How do the reports impact investment decisions? Impact Frontiers, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation, consulted for a year with some 350 impact fund managers, capital providers and third-party groups. Key question: How could impact performance reports be more decision-useful? The synthesis, “Impact Reporting Norms,” offers guidance on what to include in an impact performance report, how and to whom to report it, and why. With impact investing now representing more than $1 trillion in assets, the effort aims to channel capital “more efficiently and effectively to achieve integrated financial, social and environmental goals,” Impact Frontiers’ Rathi Ramasamy, Nao Sudo and Mike McCreless write in a guest post on ImpactAlpha.

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