Investing in Rural Resilience: Learnings from 25 Years of Impact
Root Capital’s Head of Advisory in Africa, Rose Ochieng (left) and Chief External Affairs Officer, Scott
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Pathway: Climate Action
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25 Years Strong: A Dynamic Partnership Between Keurig Dr Pepper and Root Capital
Poverty today, at the global level, is concentrated in a single industry: agriculture. More than 2
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Biodigesters: Turning Waste Into Clean Energy in East Africa
Root Capital clients in Kenya are piloting biodigesters, turning organic waste into biogas and biofertilizer. This initiative enhances rural livelihoods by providing clean cooking energy, reducing costs, and promoting environmental sustainability.
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Climate Resilience Roadmap 2023 Annual Report
Smallholder farmers are highly vulnerable to climate change. Rising temperatures and changing precipitation patterns reduce crop yields, devastate incomes, and increase poverty. Climate shocks like extreme droughts and flooding can destroy farms and lives and lead to forced migration. Without action, climate change is expected to push up to 130 million people into poverty by 2030.
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Announcing Our 2023 Climate Resilience Roadmap Annual Report
Read our 2023 Climate Resilience Roadmap Annual report to learn more about key activities and accomplishments from the past year.
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Resilient Coffee in Peru: Investing in Robusta
Peru is a global leader in Fairtrade coffee, with smallholder farmers producing high-quality coffee in remote areas. Root Capital supports these farmers, including the innovative Cooperativa Agraria de Productores de Alonso de Alvarado (CAPAA), through financing and training.
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Brewing a Solution: Coffee, Agroforestry, and the Race Against Climate Change
At TEDxBoston, Willy Foote highlighted agroforestry's role in fighting climate change and supporting coffee farmers. He urged investment in smallholder farmers, who use nature-based solutions, to protect coffee lands and livelihoods from climate threats.
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Carbon, Climate, and Coffee: Organic Agroforestry Coffee as a Natural Climate Solution
This report shows the potential of environmental payments to reward farmers for their use of carbon-friendly, agroforestry practices. It is the result of three years of collaboration with our partners the CAC Pangoa, CENFROCAFE, Cool Farm Alliance, Cooperative Coffees, COMSA, Manos Campesinas, Norandino, Sol y Café, Sustainable Food Lab, and The Chain Collaborative, with generous funding from the EcoMicro program of the Inter-American Development Bank.
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2021-2022 Biennial Report: Renewed Resilience Amidst a Post-Pandemic Recovery
Our biennial report covers two years of progress, highlighting our impact pathways, two client stories, financials from the years, and more.
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Climate Resilience Roadmap 2022 Annual Report
Climate change is an existential crisis for smallholder farmers across the world. But with the right support, these rural communities can be powerful champions of climate action. In 2020, Root Capital launched our Climate Resilience Roadmap, a six-year strategy to support urgent climate action in rural communities by building the resilience of agricultural enterprises serving smallholder farmers. Halfway through our strategy, we have made significant progress against our goals and generated valuable insights about how best to support small and growing agricultural enterprises to ramp up climate action.
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