Wellspring was commissioned by the Commercial Agriculture for Smallholders and Agribusiness (CASA) under FCDO to prepare a policy brief on the potential for private sector actors to finance food production and distribution in regions of high food insecurity, focusing particularly on FCAS and the Horn of Africa (HoA).

Description

Wellspring carried out a review of existing private sector financed initiatives – excluding CSR projects – identifying key stakeholders for consultation.Throughout the consultations, we identified key learnings from existing private sector financed food security agendas and assessed their scope and potential for targeting food security in high priority regions.

Our research reviewed a range of existing private sector initiatives and investments which aim to improve food security, and found that two objectives need to be prioritised to maximise impact:

  • 𝗙𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
  • l𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗠𝗘𝘀

Funders and clients

Common Agriculture for Smallholders and Agribusiness (CASA) Programme

Team members

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