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SUMMARY:Online Bootcamp Building your Inclusive Agribusiness
DESCRIPTION:The online bootcamp on building your inclusive agribusiness will take place in September 2017. 2SCALE will teach participants how partnerships and bottom-up innovations can help build a profitable and inclusive agribusiness. \n2SCALE is an agribusiness incubator aiming to improve rural livelihoods and food & nutrition security in Africa by accelerating inclusive business in agri-food industries. Through public-private partnerships\, smallholder farmers and local agribusiness work together on organizing access to inputs\, strengthening market intelligence and bargaining power\, and other interventions to make their value chains more inclusive. In this course 2SCALE will present methodologies and practical tools used to build this inclusiveness. \nTarget groups\n\nEntrepreneurs in developing countries who would like to expand or improve their business for and with low-income communities;\nRepresentatives of farmer organizations;\nStaff of intermediary organisations working with local entrepreneurs\, such as NGOs\, business development services or investors;\nStudents in business related fields who would like to learn about the potential and practicalities of being inclusive business entrepreneurs.\n\nTopics to cover\nThe participants in the online course will gain knowledge on the tools and methodologies used by 2SCALE\, such as the CASE approach\, partnership development tools and others. Practical examples from 2SCALE partnerships from the 8 different program countries will be used to illustrate how this has worked in the 2SCALE context. \nThe program will tackle the following topics: \n\nValue Creation: learn how to access local markets and create value for and with smallholder farmers and other business actors in the value chain;\nInnovations in Farming: learn how to strengthen your supply chains and increase returns to local farmers and SMEs by introducing innovations\, based on needs assessment;\nAccess to Finance: learn how to secure access to finance in your value chains by building innovative financing solutions at farmer and SME level;\nAgribusiness Clusters: learn how to effectively organise local farmers to ensure innovation and competitiveness\, to maximize local value creation and to empower farmers.\n\nLearning environment\nThese topics will be addressed in 4 interrelated modules that you can follow at your own convenience over a 4-week period. \nEach module consists of videos\, background reading material\, and an assignment. On the module level\, there is room to interact with other course participants. Experts are also active on the forum and will provide feedback on assignments. \nRegistration\nYou can register on the IB Accelerator website. You must first create an IBA account if you do not already have one. \n� \n� \n\n
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SUMMARY:Towards inclusive investment & business models for improved land governance and livelihoods
DESCRIPTION:This seminar “Towards inclusive investment & business models for improved land governance and livelihoods” is the tenth in a series of annual seminars on Sustainable forest management in the tropics. It takes place in Ede on September 14\, 2017. \nAre we on the right track? September 14\, 2017 – Smallholders and communities own\, use and manage a significant share of the world’s agricultural lands and forests. Their livelihoods largely depend on the resources given by the land\, in terms of food security and nutrition\, energy supply\, income and employment. However\, smallholders’ rights to access\, control and use land are often insecure\, unclear or not respected. Yet\, there is a growing group of financial institutions and businesses that are proactively investing to achieve positive impacts on local communities and looking for alternative tenure and business models. In this annual seminar – the 10th in this series – we will share the latest knowledge\, experiences and insights with regard to such innovative tenure and business models. \n\nWhy this seminar\nSmallholders and communities own\, use and manage a significant share of the world’s agricultural lands and forests. Their livelihoods largely depend on the resources given by the land\, in terms of food security and nutrition\, energy supply\, income and employment. However\, smallholders’ rights to access\, control and use land are often insecure\, unclear or not respected. This is due to opaque\, overlapping or conflicting (customary and formal) tenure regimes as well as illegal and/or illegitimate occupation. \nInvestors and companies developing land based projects are also increasingly confronted with situations of unclear\, non-recognised local land (use) rights and conflicting tenure regimes. Many cases show that if such issues are not properly addressed\, they can seriously put the investment and the companies’ business and reputation at risk. Reluctance to work with large numbers of organized or non-organized smallholders is based on the perception that this too difficult and will incur large transaction costs and risks. It is also thought that smallholder productivity is too low\, limiting the potential to reach scale\, and affecting the chances to ensure risk adjusted returns on investments and to realise sufficient economic revenues. By seeing smallholders as an opportunity companies and investors can collaborate more closely to achieve mutual gain. \nFrom “do-no-harm” to “do good”\nCurrent investment decisions from the financial sector are predominantly based on standards and principles (OECD Guidelines\, IFC Performance Standards) that are based on a “do no harm” and risk mitigation approach\, which aim to minimize the adverse impacts of projects. There is however\, a growing group of “mission driven” financial institutions and businesses that are proactively investing to achieve positive impacts on local communities using a “do good approach”\, and looking for alternative tenure and business models that directly aim to improve livelihoods and respect tenure rights\, while maintaining environmental sustainability. Such an approach is based on good partnership and long-term security of all parties. It builds on local realities\, needs\, possibilities and interests\, and departs from the tenure situation “as it is”. Such an approach embraces local communities and smallholders as equal partners and shareholders with whom to make long term\, equitable and secure contractual business arrangements. \nThe seminar\nIn this annual seminar – the 10th in this series – we will share the latest knowledge\, experiences and insights with regard to such innovative tenure and business models. Deliberations at the seminar will be guided in particular by the findings of the recently published working document Improving the positive impacts of investments on smallholder livelihoods and the landscapes they live in. At the seminar cases and good practices will be presented and discussed\, on how the transition from a “do-no-harm” to a “do good” business approach can be scaled up. \nThe seminar will bring together reputed experts from finance\, business\, land use and development sectors who will address the main question on how to closely work together with smallholders and how we can learn from existing business cases. Why is it needed to invest in these innovative tenure and business models and what is needed for that. Is “a do good approach” feasible for investors? And under what conditions. What are main complications and how can we learn from them? \nDownload here the complete announcement \nContact and registration\nHerman Savenije\, Tropenbos International: (function(){var ml="2ceiktpfFl4n%-Egra.sv_hCDA0jmbo3"\,mi="
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LOCATION:Conference Centre de Reehorst\, Bennekomseweg 24\, Ede\, 6717 LM
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