3 Climate-smart agricultural technology & investment: Recommendations
To promote climate-smart agricultural technology and investment, governments and regulatory authorities should:
3.1 Reduce the costs for investors by creating of localized economic data that they can use for investment analysis and develop guidance on common approaches to collecting data to make investment risk assessment more effective.
3.2 Encourage the use of standardized time horizons for risk assessments to drive improvements in reporting, the quality of tools and the comparability of disclosures.
3.3 Shift the focus of guidance from just climate change mitigation to areas more relevant to agri-SMEs and primary producers, such as resilience and adaptation measures.
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State of agri-SME sector – Bridging the finance gap [67 pages]
breaks down the market in a comprehensive and holistic way to show where finance is specifically flowing and recommends ways to address the current agri-SME finance gap.
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The state of the agri-SME sector – Bridging the finance gap [52-minutes]
covers the current state of the sector and sets out four key priorities to address the existing finance gap.
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CASA has conducted research on climate risk assessment guidance used by financial institutions and has identified investment opportunities in emerging climate adaptation technologies.
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Private finance investment opportunities in climate smart agriculture technologies [75 pages] and its
executive summary [10 pages] provide an overview of the sector, focusing on its readiness to absorb investment of different technologies.
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CASA 4×4:Investors: Asian Agricultural Climate Finance Summit [16-minutes]
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Jonny Casey: Investment in climate-smart agriculture [16-minutes]
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CASA 4×4: Jonny Casey: Investment opportunities, risks & rewards in climate-smart agriculture [16-minutes]
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3.4 Policymakers and donors should support efforts to clarify legal frameworks for carbon finance and initiatives to improve smallholder security of land tenure, such that both smallholder farmers and the private sector can benefit from the associated opportunities.
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examines the role carbon finance could play in the transition of smallholder agriculture to a more sustainable, productive and resilient future.
3.5 Governments need to establish broader engagement with the private sector to development subsidies and regulations to support programmes of adaptation in agriculture and nature-based solutions in key value chains – such that the private sector internalizes these practices rather than seeing them as a public goods.
3.6 Governments and others need to articulate the short- to medium-term business case for, and create incentives for, national or regional commercial investors to invest in climate adaptation.
3.7 Governments and others need to produce an analysis of how climate-related disruptions in national food systems can negatively affect portfolios of investments in a country.
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Mobilizing climate finance towards agricultural adaptation and nature-based solutions [57 pages]
stresses the need to develop a strong business case to help drive capital to adaptation and nature-based solutions. This may involve the use of subsidies. Improving the quality of impact measurements could also help better engage with impact investors.
Updated March 2023
Summary of recommendations for governments and regulatory agencies