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Business skills empowerment program through incubation and mentorship for selected pig agripreneurs in Masaka and Mukono districts: process, outcomes and lessons by Kamau, Loise, Tugume, Grace, Ahumuza, Ronnie, Marshall, Karen, Ouma, Emily A.

“…The objective of the business incubation/acceleration program focused on both the supply side (agripreneur focused) and the demand side (farmer focused) as follows: Supply side: • To empower the pig agripreneurs specifically AI service providers and pig aggregators through business skilling and mentorship • To strengthen the linkages between the pig agripreneurs and finance institutions to enhance access to finance for business upgrading through better business practices • To enhance the linkages between the pig agripreneurs, pig farmers, finance institutions and other business development services through an online networking platform Demand side: • To catalyse demand for the inputs and services delivered by the agripreneurs by sensitizing pig farmer groups on the necessary inputs and services required to run the pig enterprise as a business, and how to bargain for better terms through collective action.…”
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Bundled Climate-Smart Innovations for Small Ruminants in Ethiopia by Ewell, Hanna, Haile, Aynalem, Getachew, Tesfaye, Makonnen, Brook T., Ambaw, Gebermedihin, Solomon, Dawit, Girvetz, Evan

“…Gender- and youth-responsive delivery (female extension, tailored finance) and context-specific tailoring across highland/lowland systems are essential to reach ~0.93M households toward 60% coverage.…”
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A triple-hurdle model of small ruminant production and marketing in the highlands of Ethiopia: Implications for commercial transformation by Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Shiferaw, Kaleb, Gizaw, Solomon, Tegegne, Azage, Hoekstra, Dirk

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Resource Allocation in the CGIAR: Does the Balancing Donor Concept Need Adjusting? by CGIAR Secretariat

“…Paper for the Finance Committee by three members of the CGIAR Secretariat examining the role of the World Bank as balancing donor, and the possibility that this role provided disincentives to resource mobilization and discouraged fundraising efforts by IARCs. …”
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Exploring community institutions as instruments for strengthening tree-based livelihoods in Nyando by Misiko, Michael T.

“…The objective of this study was to analyse suitability of community institutions as stakeholders in a C finance initiative in Nyando, Kenya. This work purposively sampled registered groups with sound organisation, and not the numerous small informal entities in Nyando. …”
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A standard framework for assessing the costs and benefits of restoration: introducing The Economics of Ecosystem Restoration (TEER) by Bodin, B., Garavaglia, V., Pingault, N., Ding, H., Wilson, S., Meybeck, A., Gitz, V., D'Andrea, S., Besacier, C.

“…While the policy momentum behind ecosystem restoration has never been stronger, restoration finance remains insufficient. A crucial information gap to unlock finance is the lack of robust and consistent data on the costs and benefits of restoration. …”
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Farmers' credit access in the Democratic Republic of Congo: empirical evidence from youth tomato farmers in Ruzizi plain in south Kivu by Bonnke, S.M., Dontsop Nguezet, Paul M., Biringanine, A.N., Jean-Jacques, M.S., Manyong, Victor, Bamba, Z.

“…We recommend formalising the agricultural credit system by improving agri-finance extension service delivery to associations of tomato growers among the young to access and use agricultural microcredit services effectively to enhance agricultural production, which is a proxy for rural employment creation and poverty reduction.…”
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From Baku to Belem: Key insights and next steps for climate and agriculture by Chevallier, Romy, Gosling, Amanda

“…The report concludes with a summary of recommended actions, including forging and maintaining partnerships, influencing policy through strategic inputs, improving access to climate finance, increasing engagement in climate-related events, and strengthening data sharing and advocacy to support climate-resilient agriculture.…”
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CGIAR Mid Term Meeting, Cairo, Egypt, May 26-30, 1997: Summary of Proceedings by CGIAR Secretariat

“…The System Review was formally launched.The Group endorsed the substance of the 1998 research agenda recommended by TAC, and the reduced financial target of $335-340 million recommended by the Finance Committee. It also endorsed TAC's recommendations for the medium term planning period 1998-2000, and noted the Finance Committee plan to explore a no-growth scenario. …”
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Analysis of Paris Agreement pledges informs UNFCCC negotiations by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…UNFCCC country negotiators, donors, and climate finance investors used this and subsequent analyses to argue that agriculture is a critical sector to address in climate policy and should be prioritized in climate finance.…”
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Monitoring and Evaluating Adaptation Investments Opportunities for the Private Sector by Isbell, Carina, Jones, Kristal, Nowak, Andreea C., Rosenstock, Todd S.

“…Key messages There is an urgent need for private sector finance for adaptation, yet there is a lack of adequate tools to ramp up investments…”
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Barriers to and opportunities for improving productivity and profitability of the Kiwere and Magozi irrigation schemes in Tanzania by Mdemu, M.V., Mziray, N., Bjornlund, Henning, Kashaigili, Japhet J.

“…Finance affects farmers’ timely access to adequate supply of quality inputs and machinery and availability of transport to access inputs and profitable markets. …”
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Report of the Sixteenth Meeting of the CGIAR Private Sector Committee by CGIAR Private Sector Committee

“…Attachment 2: Some observations on private sector finance for CGIAR initiatives, by Paul S. Zuckerman.…”
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Summary Report of the Consultative Council Meeting, January 27-28, 1999 by CGIAR Consultative Council

“…The meeting focused on those issues requiring ongoing attention.The Council assigned TAC, CDC, CBC, the Chairman, Centers, and the Finance, Private Sector, and NGO Committees responsibilities for following up on different recommendations, which it grouped under the headings science, partnerships, governance, and finance. …”
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CCAFS’s Low- Emissions Development (LED) research and engagement impact on innovation and scaling-up mitigation options in agriculture by Khatri-Chhetri, Arun, Leonard, Erin S, Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Dittmer, Kyle, Costa, Ciniro, Shelton, Sadie W.

“… - Support the transition to a policy, finance and market environment, for example, conditional finance, regulations, and company accountability; to mainstream GHG mitigation in the agriculture sector.…”
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Investment guide for low-emission rice in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam by Nelson, Katherine, Tran Van The, Le Hoang Anh, Bui Tan Yen, Wollenberg, Eva Karoline, Sander, Björn Ole

“…There are a variety of options to mitigate GHG emissions from paddy rice production but the impacts and opportunities to finance such activities are not well-known or well-understood for global investors, and much remains to be done to ensure that international climate finance can be used to attract private sector investments into sustainable agriculture. …”
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Agricultural and rural mechanisation in Nepal: status, issues and options for future by Gauchan, D., Shrestha, S.

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Bridging the gap: How human-centered design can help unlock bottlenecks in the diffusion of small-scale irrigation in Nigeria by Balana, Bedru, Abba, Aminu, Iraoya, Augustine Okhale, Yakasai, Musa Tukur, Yakasai, Bello, Abdullahi, Kabiru, Shuaibu, Ahmed Usman, Musa, Nuruddeen Muhammad, Kirui, Oliver K., Edeh, Hyacinth O., Ringler, Claudia

“…Factors such as high cost of technologies, farmers’ risk behavior, lack of incentives, and lack of access to finance and capacity gaps have often been noted as key constraints limiting the adoption/scaling of SSI among smallholders. …”
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Financial services and logistics innovation within agri-food value chains: A conceptual framework by Ambler, Kate, Bloem, Jeffrey R., de Brauw, Alan

“…Finance and logistics services for agricultural value chains based on technological innovations exist in several LMICs, but they are not often extended to small holders or SMEs working in the agricultural midstream. …”
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AICCRA Communications Strategy 2024-2026 by Bucknall-Williams, Rhys, Harrys, Amy

“…This strategy supports the team in raising our ambition in additional finance to produce targeted, informative, and ultimately persuasive stories which catalyze the uptake and use of CGIAR innovations on a massive scale to address the climate crisis in Africa.…”
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