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Common Fund for Commodities

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  • Founded Since 1989

Company Description

Mission

To contribute to poverty alleviation by strengthening the income-generating capacity of commodity producers and mitigating vulnerability to their economic well being.

Vision

To strengthen and diversify the commodity sector in developing countries and transform it to be a major contributor to poverty alleviation and sustained economic growth and development.

What we do

For more than 30 years, CFC has financed development projects. The multi-country dimension of the project financing mechanism and commodity initiatives undertaken by the Fund and its partners has proven to be the most suitable approach to improve overall problems and challenges in commodity sector in Member-Countries.

Replicable project outcomes and dissemination products mainly address issues such as: market access and development; agro-processing; product competitiveness; infrastructure; marketing and access to finance, among other related activities within the commodity sector.

Projects

The CFC has funded projects in over 40 different types of commodities and in partnership with Investment Funds or Equity financing etc. The commodities funded includes abaca, arachis, bamboo & rattan, bananas, cashew, cassava, castor seeds, citrus, cocoa, coconut, coffee, coir, copper, cotton, fish, fonio, groundnuts, gum arabic, hides & skins, jute, lead, maize, meat and livestock, medicinal herbs and plants, olive, palm oil, paprika, potatoes, rice, natural rubber, shea nut, sisal, sorghum & millet, soybean, cane sugar, tea, timber, tropical fruits, spices and zinc, most of which are produced almost entirely in Developing Countries and in partnership with investment Funds among which are: Africa Agriculture & Trade Investment Fund (AATIF), African Agriculture SME Fund, Eco Enterprise Funds, Moringa Agro-forestry Fund, SME

Impact

WORKING FOR A PURPOSE

Impact is at the core of the CFC. As an impact investment fund dedicated to alleviation of poverty, CFC is committed to create positive impacts under all circumstances. Our mission is to work out an impact which is measurable using impact weighted matrix. As an impact investor, we work around a core set of beliefs and principles which only got revalidated due to widespread COVID-19 related devastations. During COVID-19, not everyone is affected in the same way. Poor, women, and youth proved to be far more vulnerable than others. SMEs and smallholders in the developing world were found to be most affected.

Operating as an impact investor, the CFC, which finances the communities which found to be more vulnerable and as such most affected, came to experience that if there were a right moment to make more interventions and accompanying investments in the developing world, this is the time.

Impact Fund and agRIF Coopertief U.A.

 

Technical Assistance Facility

The Common Fund for Commodities’ Technical Assistance (TA) Facility team partners with impact-oriented investment funds in the agricultural commodities sector to leverage the development impact and commercial sustainability of their investments into agribusinesses across Africa and Latin America. The TA Facility team comprises staff with expertise in tropical agriculture, agroecology, agroforestry, project management, impact assessment and environmental, social and governance (ESG) risk management. The TA Facility team is supported by CFC financial and administrative staff. By leveraging this expertise, the TA Facility team aims to improve the operational capacity and profitability of the targeted agribusinesses and partner institutions as well as increase the developmental impact in the sectors and communities these businesses operate. This is achieved by providing expert consultancy and capacity development support and ensuring knowledge dissemination on agriculture and agri-finance with a specific focus on smallholder supply chains and sourcing models.

22nd Call for Proposals
Impact finance for global value chain to support SMEs in the commodity sector.

The Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) invites applications for financial support from qualifying projects. The CFC can offer a range of financial and technical instruments of support to meet specific needs of SMEs/enterprises/businesses, cooperatives, and institutions along the entire commodity value chain in its member countries.

All interested SMEs/ enterprises/ businesses/ cooperatives/ governments are kindly invited to submit qualifying proposals no later than 10 April 2023.

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