1.0Ecosystem Marketplacehttps://www.ecosystemmarketplace.comHow Impact Investing Links Big Business And Small Farmingrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="Ll69DLSvdk"><a href="https://www.ecosystemmarketplace.com/articles/kenya3/"><em>Of Milk and Money, Part Four:</em> How Impact Investing Links Big Business And Small Farming</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.ecosystemmarketplace.com/articles/kenya3/embed/#?secret=Ll69DLSvdk" width="600" height="338" title="“<em>Of Milk and Money, Part Four:</em> How Impact Investing Links Big Business And Small Farming” — Ecosystem Marketplace" data-secret="Ll69DLSvdk" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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https://www.ecosystemmarketplace.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/BernardGiraudSquare.jpg16021602From 2010 through 2015, environmental NGO VI Agroforestry leveraged carbon finance to help 30,000 Kenyan farmers develop more sustainable practices. With millions of others still in poverty, however, the organization needed to scale up further, yet it was leery of taking on market risk to do so. Could a for-profit impact investment fund be the solution?