FACS – Alliance for Bioversity and CIAT project on Agriculture Investment Cases in West Africa (https://alliancebioversityciat.org/) FACS is pleased to announce that work on impact investment in the agricultural sector in West Africa has been completed. The project implemented in partnership with Alliance of Bioversity and CIAT sought to provide insights on investment landscape in West Africa by

April 2022 — FACS is pleased to report that great progress has been made in its financial advisory and technical support work for the World Poultry Foundation (WPF) Brooder Unit Financing Program in Tanzania with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The program seeks to improve income generation for small agri entrepreneurs and to enhance food security and health nutrition for rural family buyers.

We are pleased to report the significant progress we have made in our Gender Responsive Equitable Agriculture and Tourism (GREAT) project in Vietnam. In spite of the serious implementation challenges, we faced due to COVID-19 we were able to succeed with our partners VietED Center and Lien Viet Post Bank (LVPB) to develop and implement a scalable smallholder lending scheme in Son La Province,