Colleagues,
As part of the task force on this debate of innovative finance, I think the discussion has been good. I would like us to be less focused on the taxing approaches and more on how to leverage in additional private investment since the world has excess investment funds looking for a place to invest, thanks to the turmoil and doubt in the traditional stable country investments and the higher potential in emerging market agriculture. We can use our organizations, and hopefully additional funding, to help steer that investment through better governance, impact investment guidance and better steering of funding through value chains.
Calvin Miller
Senior Officer and Leader- Agribusiness and Finance Group
Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO),
www.fao.org/ag/ags/subjects/en/ruralfinance
www.ruralfinance.org
Calvin Miller