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Greenvest Capitalltd

Initiatives

Greenvest Environmental Initiative is female founded and female led, and as such prioritizes gender inclusion in its program design and fund disbursement.

It will alleviate poverty and food insecurity, mitigate against further depletion of the climate and provide holistic returns to its stakeholders.

Greenvest Environmental Initiative

Profile of an initiative focused on small-holder farmers

Greenvest Environmental Initiative is a US$5m fund that provides funding to small-holder farmers to adopt climate-smart agricultural practices. It focuses on identifying, funding and empowering climate-smart farmers and providing products and services that mitigate and reduce the effects of climate change on the Agricultural value-chain in Nigeria, and subsequently, other African countries.

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Our Target

Raise an initial US$5m

Raise an initial US$5m in a blended fund from development finance institutions, private sector funders and philanthropic foundations

Enable small farmers

Enable one million small-holder farmers to access the fund by 2030

Improve food security

Improve the contribution of small-holder farmers to food security through the provision of inputs

Increase small farmers income

Triple the income of the small-holder farmers to an average of $10/day

Empower female farmers

Empower female farmers through land acquisition programs, saving & loans, climate-based solution and climate-smart agricultural training programs

The Fund Structure

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Some Key Challenges Identified

  • Insufficient farmland 
  • High cost of inputs
  • Pest & disease control
  • Underfunding
  • Unbanked
  • Few local processors
  • Limited agricultural training
  • Over-dependence on rain
  • Poor pest management

Greenvest Capital will Provide Smallholder Farmers with Access to:

  • Funding
  • New cooperative system
  • Digital village savings and loans system – leveraging a mobile financial application
  • Capacity building
  • Farm inputs
  • Inexpensive renewable energy solutions such solar power
  • Climate-smart financial solutions such as equipment leasing
  • Storage facilities
  • Logistics solutions
  • Irrigation solutions

Expected Impact

Reduce poverty

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Improve food security

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Improve human health and well-being

Contribute to gender equality

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Promote affordable and clean energy

SDG8

Improve socio-economic development, thus reduce poverty

Improve infrastructure development

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Improve climate action

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Reduce disaster risk