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Placing contract farming in the service of development, food security, and equality
The 2022 Global Report on Food Crises[1] estimates that at least one in five Africans goes to bed hungry, and an estimated 140 million people in Africa face acute food…
Read moreNovember 6, 2023
Robert Wihtol: Finnfund to step in where we are needed the most
…This spring, due to the rapid spread of the Covid-19 virus around the world, the global investment environment has undergone drastic changes. Economies in every major continent have been pushed…
Read moreMay 27, 2020
The Ukraine price shock will be felt globally and hit the income of the poorest
In early 2022 the Emerging and Developing Economies (EMDEs) continued a fragile recovery from the pandemic, while many were balancing with increasing inflation and tightening global financial conditions. Overall, the…
Read moreMarch 29, 2022
Access to electricity – at any cost?
…International Energy Agency recently published data showing that, for the first time in modern history, the global population without access to electricity is below 1 billion. Many of the new…
Read moreAugust 21, 2019
Development investors and forest company executives huddle in snow-covered Finnish forest
…sustainable management of tropical plantation forests. This sense was fully palpable when some 50 global development financiers and business managers met in Finland 13–15 March to see what more private…
Read moreMarch 7, 2019
Phatisa and Finnfund announce exit from integrated organic sustainable palm oil producer, Planting Naturals, following acquisition by Dutch Dekker Group affiliate
…since grown into a leading global producer of organic and RSPO-certified palm oil, and is now being acquired by PaLenDu, an affiliate of the Dutch Dekker Group. Under the stewardship…
Read moreJune 19, 2024
Finnfund publishes Sustainability Bond Framework
…at Finnfund. “We are living in challenging times that highlights the importance of investors like us. Even if the global situation is challenging in many ways, it also creates new…
Read moreOctober 3, 2022
2X Challenge: G7 development finance institutions mobilize close to USD 2.5 billion to global women’s economic empowerment
…is growing stronger. The World Economic Forum’s 2018 Global Gender Gap Report estimates it would take 202 years to close the economic participation and opportunity gender gap if we continue…
Read moreAugust 23, 2019
OP Finnfund Global Impact Fund I raised EUR 76 million in the first round of funding
OP Finnfund Global Impact Fund I raised EUR 76 million in the first round of funding. As the first Finnish impact fund to invest in emerging markets, the fund targets…
Read moreJune 17, 2020
New open-access FRESCOS Tool launched for accounting the carbon sequestration in forestry projects
…on our pathway towards zero net emissions.” Ilkka Norjamäki, Senior Investment Manager, Finnfund: “We can’t do without trees! All pathways to 1.5C require a significant increase in global carbon sinks….
Read moreJune 29, 2021