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Dutch Government Invests in African Carbon Fund
About This SeriesAll week long, we'll be bringing you news from the Hague, where Ecosystem Marketplace publisher Forest Trends is supporting an Investment Fair designed to spark concrete action by bringing social entrepreneurs and social investors together under the umbrella of the United Nations.Part One: Hague Summit Tackling Climate Change and Poverty with Sustainable Agriculture offers an introduction to high-level meeting under which the Investment Fair is operating. Part Two: Betting on the Farm: Can Soil Carbon Cut Emissions and Improve the World's Farmlands? offers and in-depth look at the technologies being used to measure the amount of carbon captured in the soil. Part Three Measuring the Carbon Emissions of the World's Farms examines the Global Agricultural Climate Assessment, a project being presented at the Investment Fair. Part Four Rockefeller Foundation Pledges $1.5 Million for Climate-Smart Agriculture discusses the foundation's commmitment to fund projects that emphasize low-emission farming. Part Five Dutch Government Invests in African Carbon Fund highlights a deal made during the investment fair. Part Six First-Ever African Soil-Carbon Deal Signed at Hague Investment Fair offers a glimpse into this ground-breaking deal. Part Seven Money Flows to Green Ag and Farming at Hague Investment Fair describes the development of the Fair as well as its accomplishments. Part Eight Hague Action Plan Puts Climate-Smart Agriculture on Cancun Radar wraps up the week and looks to how it will impact the Cancun negotiations. Part Nine Green Gold gives a in-depth look at a project using carbon finance to support Mongolian farmers NOTE: This is a breaking story. It will be expanded into a full feature within the next two weeks.Tweet 3 November 2010 | THE HAGUE | Netherlands | Dutch minister for Agriculture and Foreign Trade Henk Bleker has signed a financial commitment with the investment fund Food 4 All. This fund specializes in smaller companies and cooperation’s in East and West Africa. It is the second deal that has been signed at the Investment Fair, which is taking place on the sidelines of the International Conference on Agriculture, Food safety and Climate Change in The Hague, The Netherlands. The fund helps small companies set up or improve their business. Lack of management skills and lack of marketing abilities are the biggest reasons small companies in East and West Africa go bankrupt. In addition, obtaining the right financing is difficult for these companies-even if they have a high-quality plan. Food 4 All is the the organization that offers financial and practical aid for companies in the agro food sector. In this way, entrepreneurship is rewarded and sustainable agriculture sector is further developed. 
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