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| Agri-PDB Platform Peer-Learning Exchange: NABARD & MAIIC |
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3–7 November 2025 | India
The Agri-PDB Platform facilitated an on-site peer-learning mission in India between the Malawi Agricultural and Industrial Investment Corporation (MAIIC) and the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), in collaboration with the IFAD Country Office. Through institutional exchanges in Mumbai and field visits in Andhra Pradesh, the mission showcased how NABARD supports agroecological and community-based rural development by linking finance, strong rural institutions, and local innovation.
Field visits highlighted diversified, climate-resilient farming systems using local seeds and natural inputs; the role of Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) and Custom Hiring Centers in service delivery and market access; women-led Self-Help Groups (SHGs) driving savings, lending, and income generation; integrated livelihood models combining crops, livestock, fisheries, and nutrition; and community governance systems supported by digital and geospatial tools. Building on these insights, the Agri-PDB Platform will support MAIIC in developing a roadmap for agroecology-aligned investments, facilitate targeted expert exchanges with NABARD, and continue fostering South–South peer learning across its PDB network. |
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| | | 4th Working Group on AgroecologyFinancing the Agroecological Transition: Farmers’ Voices and Perspectives of Public Development Banks |
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| 27 November 2025 | Online
The 4th Agri-PDB Platform webinar on agroecology brought together representatives from the European Commission (DG INTPA), IFAD, AFD, the Agroecology Coalition, Crédit Agricole du Maroc (CAM), and Moroccan farmers to explore how financial systems can better support the agroecological transition. Farmers shared firsthand experiences highlighting both the resilience benefits of agroecological practices and the persistent barriers to finance, including rigid loan conditions, limited technical support, and transition risks. CAM presented its green financing instruments for organic farming, energy efficiency, and waste valorisation, while AFD underlined the need for risk-sharing tools, incentives, and long-term technical assistance to make agroecology bankable. The discussions converged on three priorities for Public Development Banks: combining finance with technical assistance, adapting financial products to smallholder realities, and strengthening collaboration among farmers, banks, and public partners. The webinar reaffirmed agroecology as a progressive, financeable pathway toward resilient and inclusive food systems, with further dialogue planned in 2026. |
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| | | | IFAD and Agri-PDB Platform Learning Event
Financing Nature-Positive Agriculture: What Public Development Banks Can Do |
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| 3 December 2025 | Online
The Agri-PDB Platform and IFAD’s Biodiversity Team launched a new webinar series on biodiversity, focusing on how Public Development Banks (PDBs) can finance nature-positive agriculture. The session brought together IFAD, AFD, the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) and Brazil’s BNDES to share concrete tools, financial instruments and country experiences. Discussions highlighted biodiversity as a core risk-management and resilience issue for agricultural finance, and showcased practical approaches—from AFD’s Nature+ Finance methodology and long-term partnerships with FIRA (Mexico) and CAM (Morocco), to DBSA’s nature-based infrastructure solutions and BNDES’s large-scale forest restoration and agroforestry programmes. Speakers underlined that combining finance with technical assistance, guarantees and blended instruments is key to scaling impact, while early poll results confirmed that many PDBs remain at an early stage and need practical tools, data and peer learning. By combining policy perspectives with operational examples, the session helped clarify how PDBs can begin—or deepen—their engagement with biodiversity as part of broader agricultural finance strategies. |
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IFAD and Rabobank Webinar Unite to Unlock Inclusive Finance: A Shared Commitment to Transform Food Systems |
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| 12 November 2025 | Utrecht, The Netherlands
The Agri-PDB Platform shared with its global network the webinar Unite to Unlock Inclusive Finance, organized under IFAD’s Inclusive Financial Ecosystem for Food Systems Transformation (IFEFST) programme and delivered by Rabo Partnerships. The event brought together more than 65 organizations worldwide and showcased concrete solutions from National Public Development Banks in Asia and Latin America to advance inclusive agricultural finance. Through country experiences from the Philippines, Vietnam, Colombia, Mexico and Bolivia, the webinar highlighted how concessional loans, guarantees, insurance, digital platforms and technical assistance can be combined to better serve smallholder farmers and de-risk rural lending. |
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Looking ahead to early 2026, the Agri-PDB Platform will continue its learning series with upcoming webinars in January 2026 focusing on carbon credits, land restoration, and financial inclusion, further supporting PDBs in advancing nature-positive finance. |
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As the year comes to a close, we extend our warmest wishes to all our members and partners for a joyful holiday season. We wish you a peaceful Christmas and a prosperous New Year 2026, and we look forward to continuing our collaboration in the year ahead. |
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