How investing in sustainable food and agriculture made a difference in 2019

Agriculture provides a livelihood for 2.5 billion people worldwide; many of them in developing countries. Over the next 35 years, agriculture will face an unprecedented confluence of pressures, including a 30% increase in the global population, intensifying competition for increasingly scarce land, water and energy resources, and the existential threat of climate change.

To be sustainable, food and agriculture chains must meet the needs of present and future generations for its products and services, while ensuring profitability, environmental health and social and economic equity. Therefore, Hivos-Triodos Fund looks to finance scalable business opportunities that contribute to this view. We see a case for small-scale farmers and sustainable agricultural methods in developing countries. Likewise, for scalable business models within the value chain to increase their efficiency from ‘farm to fork’: farming inputs and farming, sourcing and transport, processing, marketing and branding, retailing, and consumption.

The numbers reflect the aggregated impact made by the fund's trade financing loans.

98,000 small-scale farmers reached

64,000 hectares of certified organic farmland

49M tonnes of sustainably grown products exported

Read our case studies for more about Hivos-Triodos fund’s contribution to the food transition.

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