Financing Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of the Role of Financial Technologies

Mapanje, Olga; Karuaihe, S.; Machethe, Charles; Amis, Mao

doi:10.3390/su15054587

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“…Investments in agricultural research, extension services, and access to quality inputs contribute to increased agricultural productivity. This leads to greater food production, availability, and access, reducing hunger (Mapanje et al., 2023).…”

Section: Promoting and Protecting The Right To Foodmentioning

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Beyond hunger: Unveiling the rights to food in sub‐Saharan Africa

Onyeaka,

Adeboye,

Bamidele

et al. 2024

Food and Energy Security

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This article explores the fundamental right to food, examining its legal framework, its relationship with other human rights, and the efforts being made globally to improve this right. It begins by looking at international and national laws that protect the right to food and examining their importance in ensuring food security and sovereignty. It then explores how food rights intersect with other rights, such as health, education, and labor, revealing the interrelated web of human rights. The article further highlights how the right to food is closely tied to the objectives of reducing poverty and promoting social justice, which are crucial components in the collective effort to achieve food security for all. Additionally, it evaluates the effectiveness of current policies and strategies in promoting the right to food, particularly in sub‐Saharan Africa. The novelty of the article is that it brings into perspective, the encumbrance of food sovereignty in sub‐Saharan Africa and concludes with potential solutions.

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Section: Promoting and Protecting The Right To Foodmentioning

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Beyond hunger: Unveiling the rights to food in sub‐Saharan Africa

Onyeaka,

Adeboye,

Bamidele

et al. 2024

Food and Energy Security

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“…Blended finance (Apampa et al 2021;Bakare, Ogunleye, and Kehinde 2023), the third form of private financing aims to facilitate the transition to a sustainable food system. This approach involves commercial banks and other institutions that offer financial services but do not have a banking license, requiring a multistakeholder partnership between financial security and the food agriculture industry (Mapanje et al 2023). Moreover, The UN Food System Summit's Action Track 3 emphasizes the need for financing models and instruments that grant food value chain actors, including farmers, access to capital and incentivize investment in more sustainable production practices (Diaz-Bonilla et al 2022;Huang and Azman 2023).…”

Section: Role Of Innovative Financing-sustainable Food Security Systemmentioning

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Transforming ASEAN: Strategies for Achieving Inclusive and Sustainable Growth

2024

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he year 2023 has again been a momentous year for Indonesia. Indonesia reaffirmed its significance in the global community this year by assuming the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Chair, after its successful Presidency of the Group of Twenty (G20) in 2022. Highlighting the region as an "epicenter of growth," Indonesia supported work to promote sustainable growth and development in the region while securing food security, managing energy transition, and strengthening cross-border connectivity and regional cooperation.These priorities are particularly critical as ASEAN continues to face many challenges 3 years after the global pandemic. Following the region's 5.6% growth in 2022, growth is now expected to slow to 4.6% this year and 4.8% next year. This is slightly below ASEAN's long-term average growth, with the region facing many global headwinds, as described by Adam Tooze as a "polycrisis." Inflation has jumped due to supply chain disruptions resulting from the pandemic and policy responses to the pandemic, as well as higher food and fuel prices resulting from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Geopolitical tensions have risen, financial volatility has increased-and climate change looms ever larger.To surmount the "polycrisis," the global community will need to adopt well-calibrated and wellharmonized policies. Under Indonesia's 2022 chairmanship, the G20 Summit in Bali made several commitments toward this end: staying agile and flexible in macroeconomic policy, protecting macroeconomic and financial stability, promoting food and energy security, unlocking further investments to help developing countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and recommitting to accelerate the achievement of the SDGs.Thus, this book is extremely useful as it examines some of these critical themes, focusing on ASEAN's low-carbon transition, the food security agenda, and the role of the G20 and ASEAN to in supporting ASEAN in the global economy. This publication is practical as it distills both regional and countrylevel knowledge and experience, facilitates the sharing of lessons and best practices, and helps policy makers design better policies, solutions, and recommendations for the region.Going forward, medium-term risks and uncertainties remain but the prospects are also encouraging. It is my hope that this book will help policy makers prepare effective strategies to build on recent economic gains, transform the growth prospects, and help build a more inclusive and sustainable growth path for ASEAN. As we actively engage with stakeholders across Indonesia to identify areas where knowledge and partnerships can foster progress, this publication will also inform the Asian Development Bank's operations and strategy in Indonesia.I thank the Asian Development Bank Institute and all stakeholders and contributors who helped make this publication possible.

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“…The initial research on fintech and green finance provided perspective and explored possibilities, such as using blockchain [33]. Slowly, research has opened to case studies and empirical research, and now, literature reviews are also being published [34][35][36]. The primary themes in the literature include green objectives such as climate change, green financing and payments, and policy/regulation.…”

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“…If fintechs are growing fast and their impact on sustainability is important, how do they help achieve sustainable development goals? While most fintechs stress societal goals such as reaching out to the financially excluded, some are helping finance activities such as agriculture [34]. Since fintechs have more online data, it becomes easier to analyze it and take action.…”

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How Can Fintech Companies Get Involved in the Environment?

Ashta

2023

Sustainability

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Financial services providers have the funds to finance climate change, and new entrepreneurs would like to join this effort. They need ideas on what fintechs can do to make money yet be sustainable. The research purpose of this study is to explore what fintechs are doing in this field of climate change and what theoretical and policy implications can be gained. This exploratory study uses a multiple case study method, using secondary sources of information. The sample includes five big fintechs and twelve green fintechs. The study finds that large fintech firms are diverse in the extent of their reporting and the issues that they are tackling, but they all report on their Scope 1 and Scope 2 impacts, and most report on Scope 3. Smaller dedicated green fintechs in the sample are grouped into those that offer to crowdfund green projects, those that track the impact of green projects or other firms or individuals, payment firms that invest directly into green projects, and those that provide a platform for peer-to-peer trading of renewable energy. The exploration is relevant to theories and concepts, including product differentiation and enhancement, disruptive innovation, collaborative ecosystems, and environmental and social impacts. Using lateral thinking, microfinance, and work-sharing research can stimulate reflection on developing more inclusive and advanced green fintech offerings. A few directions for future research in this field have been provided for those interested in impact measurement, strategic management, business models, risk management, or innovation theories.

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Financing Sustainable Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of the Role of Financial Technologies

Cited by 35 publications

References 29 publications

Beyond hunger: Unveiling the rights to food in sub‐Saharan Africa

Beyond hunger: Unveiling the rights to food in sub‐Saharan Africa

Transforming ASEAN: Strategies for Achieving Inclusive and Sustainable Growth

How Can Fintech Companies Get Involved in the Environment?

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