Investment

The cooperation between both organisations targets nature-based solution companies within the value chains of globally traded commodities in Indonesia including coffee, cacao and coconut.

The impact investor’s recently launched inclusive growth strategy focuses on businesses that are delivering positive outcomes for vulnerable people in the UK.

Complete Farmer uses digital technology to build a more efficient agricultural supply chain for smallholder farmers in West Africa.

The new strategy secured an £80bn investment from “a large UK defined benefit pension scheme”, fund manager Rory Sandilands tells Impact Investor. 

The Japanese development bank joins founding partner KfW as an investor in the fund, which provides loans to SMEs exporting from emerging Asia and Africa.

The UK and Dutch governments, alongside IDB Invest, have contributed to the Responsible Commodities Facility, which will provide $60m in loans to soy farmers committed conserving their forest reserves in the Brazilian Cerrado.

The fund aims to use blended structures to help mobilise private investment in green infrastructure projects across Africa.

Modern slavery remains one of the most overlooked human rights challenges, yet it is deeply embedded in global supply chains and, by extension, in institutional investor portfolios, argues Maria Nazarova-Doyle.

The Oslo-based investor has already invested from its second fund in three firms providing technology and services to the sustainable fish farming industry.

Nuveen’s head of private equity impact talks to Impact Investor about what limited partners are looking for in the impact space, trends and themes that are shaping private equity, and future innovations in private capital and impact.