Abstract
This chapter explores the possibility to develop an investment model dedicated to agroecology and peasant farming, in a way that can benefit local communities. It describes an innovative conceptual approach to financing individual and collective investments, based on royalty on revenue and risk-sharing, with farmers on the driver seat of decision-making. This chapter presents the explorations of a team of international experts who tried to develop collaborative agreements with financial institutions, to test the model and get proof of concept, with a view of creating a world peasant fund for global impact. It tells the story of a pilot project implemented in Africa in 2015, in Mozambique, with a farmer association, Alfredo Namitete, and recounts the way in which the finding of the inner inflection or acupoints, and the reweaving of relationships and connections, has triggered waves of transformations for the association members and their leaders.
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See film by Charles H. Fergusson. 2010. “Inside Job.”
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Reportedly subject to negotiation by international investors between 2006 and 2011 much of it in low-income countries (HLPE 2013).
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Personal communication Dave Chen, 2014.
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Socremo Bank, Mozabank, Banco Opportunidad, Ecobank, BancoTerra, Agence Française de Dévelopment (AFD), Thembani Guarantee Fund and later Triodos and Rabobank.
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See T21. Available at http://www.millennium-institute.org/integrated_planning/tools/T21/T21_sf.html (7 August 2017).
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International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development (IAASTD 2009).
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Hilmi, A. (2018). Finding the Acupoints. In: Agroecology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68489-5_3
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