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Climate-smart agriculture is inherent to impact investing. Altogether, it provides mitigation of the highest appointed risk for agriculture investing—climate change; it brings to light out-of-the-box solutions that go from soil management practices to new sorts of apps and technology with a direct positive and measurable impact on reduced desertification; better soil quality; lower costs; and food security. In this chapter, we address the most commonly mentioned concerns of individual and institutional investors about climate-smart agriculture investing and provide real and up-to-date cases on how these perceived risks are being addressed by businesses in Latin America. The findings show that new business models and changed mindsets resemble concrete opportunities and that a sort of new actors in the field will provide the required seed and start-up capital.
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The collaboratory methodology was developed during the 50+20 Initiative by a working group led by Prof. Katrin Muff from the Business School Lausanne. It fuses collaboration and laboratory, aiming to be a building space where collaborative innovations are explored.
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Based on the collaboratory session about risk in CSA impact investing in Brazil held in May 2018 in SĂŁo Paulo.
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This amount was estimated, based on interviews with the ICT companies based in the Manaus Free Trade Zone in April 2018.
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Rotondaro, A., Minardi, A., Dissemond, L. (2020). Opportunities and Challenges of Impact Investing in Climate-Smart Agriculture in Latin America. In: La Torre, M., Chiappini, H. (eds) Contemporary Issues in Sustainable Finance. Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40248-8_10
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