Webinar: How can sustainability standards support investment? Trends, challenges and opportunities In this webinar, we will discuss how sustainability standards can support investment. The investment community is increasingly recognizing the value of sustainability standards. Some investors see standards as a useful tool for ESG risk management, while those with more ambitious sustainability objectives, are going…

Original post dated May 31, 2017, by Tanja Havemann, Kaspar Baumann and Dr Christine Negra is available here. Agricultural supply chains create financial value as traders, processors and distributors move products towards consumers. While different soft commodity chains may include similar stakeholders, they create very different non-financial value. Depending on the production site, management practices and…

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…

Clarmondial recently participated in the 4th Annual Conservation Finance Conference, hosted by Credit Suisse. There was a good turnout of investment banks, advisers and other groups looking to develop new conservation investment opportunities. This event remains one of the highlights of the environmental investments calendar, and has grown steadily in terms of number and quality…

On 25-27 January 2017 the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) hosted a conference on investments in inclusive rural transformation at its headquarters in Rome. The event was organised on the premise that more private sector resources are required to meet the financing demand of smallholder farmers, which is estimated at USD 200bn – an amount which cannot currently…

  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…

On the 6th of June 2016, Clarmondial hosted a session on “Connecting financial tools and landscapes: Aggregators and strategic interventions” at the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF): The Investment Case event in London. Tanja Havemann, Director at Clarmondial, facilitated the well-attended session which focused on debt financing. The aim of the session was to consider the…

On June 21st Clarmondial led a webinar on sustainable agriculture investing with Trusted Family. Trusted Family works with some of the world’s most prestigious multigenerational business-owning families, helping them better manage their family and their family community. They take multigenerational families on a complete engagement journey through the use of a unique proprietary technology platform…