Key takeaways from the panel discussion included the need to:

• Focus on how to get agribusinesses in Africa to the table to talk about investing in adaptation, they need to invest in adaptation first and cannot look for other options such as moving into another geography
• Invest in the nexus of agriculture and energy or transport as can be a way to tackling both adaptation and mitigation.
• Acknowledge, there is a limited pipeline of investable agribusinesses. Could data help us aggregate pipelines of investable opportunities?
• Remember that  feasibility studies for technologies is context specific.
• Weigh up affordability vs availability when planning to push innovations and make them affordable for the customer, remembering the need for a clear business case for the farmers
• Focus on de-risking investments in adaptation for private investors using donor funds and development finance initiatives (DFIs)
• Understand investors and concessional finance providers don’t classify their investments as mitigation and/or adaptation, as they understand that these terms are interconnected
• Be aware that even donors don’t always know exactly how much they invest in adaptation
• Provide technical assistance to locally-led agri-SMEs, if they are accessing climate-smart agriculture technologies, to be able to evaluate their impact
• Improve the metrics for measuring the impact of climate investment in adaptation and mitigation to avoid being accused of greenwashing.