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Unlocking finance for smallholder forest and farm producers
Lessons and practices for landscape restoration and sustainable production in Africa
18 - 20 Apr 2023, World Agroforestry Campus, Nairobi, Kenya
Abstract
Africa has an estimated thirty-three million smallholder farmers. They contribute up to 70 per cent of the food supply and the actual implementation of most regional and international level climate agreements that their respective countries have signed. Smallholders are key to the achievement of goals of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and the Decade on Family Farming.
Despite this, smallholders are confronted by many challenges, key among the limited access to finance. Finance provided to smallholder producers in low-income countries, particularly in Africa, rarely match their requirements to improve and scale up sustainable forest and farm management practices. Smallholders are often constrained by unfavourable scale, terms and conditions associated with the few finance opportunities available to them with many risk factors, regardless of their capacity. Therefore, they fail to tap into substantial returns that can be found through better-suited financial products for forest and farm producers.
Objectives
This conference will provide a platform for the exchange of valuable lessons and sharing perspectives on related projects on finance. This will help develop a shared understanding of challenges in getting finance to smallholder producers for their innovative and value chain activities, and actions for climate and nature-based solutions.
Specifically, the conference will:
Stocktake lessons learned from successful and scalable experiences and best practices on finance;
Share insights on the best ways to mobilize finance; and
Discuss and identify appropriate financing instruments for scaling up, including carbon and biodiversity finance and internal finance mechanisms developed by smallholder producer organizations.
The conference will also include a field trip to smallholder cooperatives in Kiambu and Muranga counties of Kenya. Participants will see examples of forest and farm producer organizations’ innovative activities, value chains development and climate and nature actions worth financing, as well as their internal finance mechanisms.
This conference is organized by the Forest and Farm Facility, in collaboration with CIFOR-ICRAF, Kenya Forest Research Institute, and the Kenya Forest Service.
Ephantus Kimotho Kimani, Principal Secretary-Forestry Principal Secretary/ Festus K. Ngeno Principal Secretary-Environment and Climate Change, Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry Kenya (MECCF)
Soipan Tuya, Cabinet Secretary, MECCF
Overview of relevant global and regional programmes
Peter Minang, Director Africa, CIFOR-ICRAF
Ewald Rametsteiner, Deputy Director Forestry Division, FAO and Officer-in-Charge of the Forest and Farm Facility
Coffee break
Session I: Innovative and Value Chain Finance
Moderator’s introduction
Marco Boscolo, Forestry Officer, FAO
Keynote – Innovative and inclusive models to finance sustainable forest value chains
Petri Lehtonen, Private sector investments expert, FAO
Global and regional innovative initiatives
Africa Forestry Impact program
Paul Ohaga, Senior Director, New Forests
Scaling Restoration through capacity building and Access to Investments – Land Accelerator Case
Samuel Kabiru, Manager, World Resources Institute (WRI)
Financing SMEs that deliver restoration with smallholders – The Africa Eats model
Jumaane Tafawa and Luni Libes, Co-founders, Realize Impact (Virtual)
Lunch break
Panel presentations of country cases and moderated discussion
Collaborative Mechanism to Attract Finance in Ghana (The Case of the Cocoa Landscape)
Evans Sampene Mensah, Project manager, Tropenbos Ghana
Lessons from the Adaptation Benefits Mechanism
Olufunso Somorin, Africa Development Bank
Facilitating investments in value addition in Uganda
Edward Onsongo, Intervention Manager – Private Sector Investments, Gatsby Africa Foundation
Kenya Forest Investment Facility
Jane Ndeti, Forester, KFS
De-risking and enhancing tree-based enterprise through performance-based finance: Framework and application in Cameroon
Peter Minang, Director for Africa, CIFOR-ICRAF
The Restoration Factory, Ben DeRidder, Forestry Officer, FAO (TBC)
Tools and new developments
A new fund being implemented by Worldwide Fund for Nature Netherlands (WWF- NL) and Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank (FMO)
Ian Isherwood and Tigere Muzenda, Regional Business Investment Officer, Dutch Fund for Climate & Development
Green Finance for Sustainable Landscapes (GF4SL) – Land Finance Hub to link SMEs to finance
Andrew Wardell, Principal scientist, CIFOR-ICRAF
A new e-learning course on how to develop bankable business plans
Marco Boscolo, Forestry Officer, FAO
The commercial forest investment centre and key research done on forest financing in Kenya
Joram Kagombe, Deputy Director (Socio Economic Policy and Governance), KEFRI
Improving smallholder farmers’ access to credit by leveraging climate technology to reduce the transactions costs by financial institutions: The Climate Smart Lending Platform (CSLP):
Federico Biadene, Senior East Africa Programme Associate, Partnership for Forests
Key conclusion and way forward
Coffee break
Session II: Climate and Nature-Based Finance
Part 1 – Climate finance
Moderator’s introduction
Stephen Muchiri, Eastern Africa Farmers’ Federation
Keynote speech – Overview of climate fund getting money to the ground
Duncan Macqueen, Principal Researcher and Team Leader on forests, IIED
Panel presentations
Speaker 1 – Challenges and opportunities in international climate finance – Experiences in Western Africa
Imelda Agondanou, Network of Farmers and Producers’ Organizations in West Africa (ROPPA)
Speaker 2 – Investor’s perspective in getting finance to the ground – Perceived risks and recommendations for accessing finance
Speaker TBC
Speaker 3 – Getting money where it matters – Experiences in Eastern Africa
Philip Kiriro, Board Member of Eastern Africa Farmers’ Federation (EAFF)
Speaker 4 – International Funding instruments – Experience of Dedicated Grant Mechanism (DGM)
Dinara Akhmetova, World Bank
Mentimeter questions
Audience Q&A
Part 2 – Carbon finance
Moderator’s interaction with audience (Mentimeter): Phosiso Sola, Scientist, CIFOR ICRAF
Speaker 3 – Opportunities for carbon markets in Africa: the role of governments
Anne Nyatichi Omambia, Climate Change Coordinator, National Environment Management Authority (NEMA Kenya).
Speaker 4 – Success and challenges from a carbon project
Elizabeth Mwiyeria, Country Manager for Kenya, Vi Agroforestry
Speaker 5 – How smallholder farmers/communities are engaging and benefiting from carbon investments and markets?
Rose Nasambu Wabwile, Western Kenya (FFPO)
Interactive part and/Q&A, wrap up discussion
Briefing on the program of the field visit
Geoffrey Wanyama, Chief Executive Officer, Farm Forestry Smallholder Producers Association of Kenya (FF SPAK)
FIELD TRIP: Visit to Smallholder Cooperatives in Kiambu and Muranga Counties of Kenya
Team 1
Travel to Gatura Muranga
Team 2
Travel to Ndiko, Kiambu
Team 3
Travel to Kakuzi, Muranga
Introductory Meeting
Team 1, team 2 and team 3
FIELD TRIP: Visit to Smallholder Cooperatives in Kiambu and Muranga Counties of Kenya
Team 1
Visit to Lima Linda cooperative
Team 2
Visit to Gatundu North Agrifrunuts Cooperative Society
Team 3
Visit to Kakuzi PLC
Lunch break
FIELD TRIP: Visit to Smallholder Cooperatives in Kiambu and Muranga Counties of Kenya
Team 1
Meeting with County Officials
Team 2
Field Visit
Team 3
Field Visit
Travel Back to Nairobi
Recap of Day 1
Philip Kisoyan, Natural Resource Management Officer/ GEF Focal Point/ National FFF Facilitator, FAO Kenya
Reflection on key lessons from the field trip lead by team leaders:
Team 1: Speakers TBC
Team 2: Speakers TBC
Team 3: Speakers TBC
Coffee break
Session III: FFPOs’ Internal Financing Mechanisms
Stage setting introduction to the session topic
Isabela Núñez del Prado Nieto, Researcher (forest finance), IIED
Keynote speech: Sifa Chiyoge, Regional Director and Chief Executive Officer, International Cooperative Alliance
National and international Cases
Kenya case – We Effect initiatives in supporting internal finance mobilization
Maina Gakuru, Regional Programme Coordinator,
Ghana case – Jwa Ngwaane Credit Union (KANBAOCU)
Mark Kebo Akparibo, Founder and Executive Seretary, Tele-Bere Green AgroFarms
Zambia case – MASOPO saving schemes and mobile money booths
Lozindaba Dauya, Relationship Manager, Zambia National Commercial Bank PLC (Zanaco)/ Tombozi Chalke, National Coordinator, Zambia National Forestry Commodities Association (ZNFCA)
Indian Case – SEWA Cooperative Bank
Smita Bhatnagar, Senior Coordinator, Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA)
Plenary and Q&A
Lunch break
Outcome of the 1st Roundtable on Finance with financial institution held Netherlands and next steps: Bas Louman, Program Coordinator, Tropenbos International (TBI)
Session IV: Business Roundtable
1st Series: Wood Value Chain Business
Moderator’s introduction: James Mwai, Director, Gatsby Africa
Overview of issues in the wood value chain: George Muthike, Deputy Director, Forest Products Programme, KEFRI
Wood Business Case: Benjamin Karanja, Chairperson, TGAN
Panel discussion:
Panelist 1 – Finance sector: Wesley Rotich, Relationship Manager of Government & Public Sector, Co-operative Bank of Kenya
Panelist 2 – Research and development: Joshua Cheboiwa, Director, KEFRI
Panelist 3 – Policy sector: Alex Lemarkoko, Chief Conservator of Forest, KFS
Panelist 4 – Community of practice: Speaker TBC Kenya Association of Timber Manufacturers (Timber Merchant)
2nd Series – Avocado Value Chain Business
Overview of issues in the avocado value chain: Speaker TBC
Avocado Business Case: John Mwangi, Chairperson, Lima Linda Coperative
Panel discussion:
By Panelist 1, Panelist 2 and Panelist 3 above.
3rd Series – Tree Nursery Value Chain Business
Tree Nursery Value Business Case: Jeanne RAVOLOLONTSOA
Panel discussion:
By Panelist 1, Panelist 2 and Panelist 3 above.
4th Series – Honey Value Chain Business
Honey Business Case: Damian Sulumo, Chief Executive Officer, Mtandao wa Vikundi vya Wakulima Mkoa wa Arusha (MVIWAARUSHA), Tanzania
Panel discussion:
By Panelist 1, Panelist 2 and Panelist 3 above.
Discussion
Moderated discussion among all panelists in the above series.
Session V: Working Groups on Information Hub
Introduction to Working Groups (WGs)
Sophie Grouwels, Forestry Officer – Forest and Farm Facility, FAO
Jhony Zapata, Forestry Officer – Forest and Farm Facility, FAO
Working groups
Facilitated by Marco Boscolo, Forestry Officer, FAO
Plenary reporting back and summary of action points
Coffee break
Closing Session
Launching of Kenya Forestry Investments & Innovation Centre Platform
Ephantus Kimotho Kimani, Principal Secretary-Forestry Principal Secretary/ Festus K. Ngeno Principal Secretary-Environment and Climate Change, MECCF
Summary of key messages and action points
Ravi Prabhu, Director General Interim/FAO
Official closure
Ephantus Kimotho, PS, State Department of Forestry, MECCF
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