Le fonds « Food Securities Fund », initié par Clarmondial, a décaissé un prêt à une entreprise opérant en Afrique de l’Ouest, son premier investissement dans la région. L’emprunteur est engagé dans la mise en œuvre de pratiques agricoles durables et intelligentes face au climat dans une zone rurale sèche de la région de la…

The Food Securities Fund, advised by Clarmondial, disbursed a loan to a company operating across West Africa, its first investment in the region. The borrower supports the implementation of organic, climate smart practices in a dry rural area in the ECOWAS region. The loan will enable the borrower to expand its organic certified sourcing to…

Highlights: On 02 March 2021, the Food Securities Fund successfully started operations. Its first investment, disbursed on 08 March 2021, supports coffee production in East Africa, reaching almost 4’000 smallholder farmers operating in agroforestry systems, utilizing organic and regenerative practices. The Food Securities Fund provides working capital loans to sustainable agriculture companies in emerging and developing…

Clarmondial and the WWF Landscape Finance Lab have produced “Capitalising Conservation”, a new report exploring how conservation organisations and their partners can mobilise private investment in conservation. The report provides a framework to guide the identification, structuring and execution of investments in conservation. It describes various roles conservation organisations can play to unlock investment capital…

Clarmondial is supporting Bioversity International on the design and structuring of financial instruments based on the Agrobiodiversity Index1. By linking scientific research to risk assessment tools and funding mechanisms, investors can catalyze change at scale and shift global markets towards resilient agricultural systems. Supply chains based on a single genetic variety may not deliver the…

Building on its track record in environmental finance, Clarmondial has joined the Coalition for Private Investment in Conservation (CPIC). This coalition, which includes Credit Suisse, The Nature Conservancy (TNC), International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and Cornell University, plans to develop new investment models and funding pipelines that help close the current conservation…

  PRESS RELEASE Luxembourg, 22 November 2016 (PDF version available here) Clarmondial AG partners with Duff & Phelps (Luxembourg) Management Company S.A.R.L., Pictet Asset Services and Allen & Overy to launch a new fund that supports responsible agricultural practices in emerging markets. Building on its work with leading global corporates and strategic investors, the Swiss-based investment…

Over the past 12 months, Clarmondial has worked on a number of mandates to assess opportunities for environmental finance in collaboration with companies, tied to themes of conservation, Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR), agroforestry and climate change mitigation, adaptation and resilience, among others. We spoke with investors, donors and corporates (including some who have partnerships with…

During the first four years of Clarmondial, most of our work was focused on advising investors, from family offices and fund managers to companies and foundations, on their deal sourcing, due diligence and management. Gradually, and especially from late 2013, we switched our attention to working with project developers and companies. The main reason for…

We are pleased to announce that we are co-hosting the following event: London, 22nd October, Roundtable on Climate Bonds Standard for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) Investment Roundtable for asset owners and managers, prospective issuers and underwriters The Climate Bonds Initiative, Banking Environment Initiative (BEI) and Swiss based Clarmondial invite you to a Roundtable on investment opportunities in Agriculture,…