IMPROVING EFFICIENCY OF THE AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEM TO INCREASE SMALLHOLDER FARMER INCOMES
Over 80% of the world's farmers are smallholders and who's incomes are negatively impacted by low productivity, low price realization, high cost of cultivation, and increased vulnerability due to erratic weather patterns and climate change. We work across the agriculture and allied value chains to improve farm productivity, price realization and the flow of capital into the sector.
Our Areas of Intervention
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Market Access
Enable forward linkages and technology integration through structured interventions for farmer producer groups
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Agri Financing
Create access to affordable credit, guarantee funds and innovative capital instruments to advance agricultural productivity
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Policy advocacy and research
Create and disseminate research to influence, promote and adopt Good Agricultural Practices (‘GAP’) across emerging markets
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Capital Sourcing
Raising equity, debt, grant and facilitating M&As
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Agriculture Development
Platform design, business planning, and technical support for conducting pilots in agriculture value chains
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Agriculture Landscape Studies
Landscape assessment and evaluation of enterprises, as well as investment analysis and innovation challenge implementation in the agriculture sector
OUR CREDENTIALS
ADB
Provide overview on carbon market instruments and potential to engage smallholder farmers in India
IDH
Study on the role of digital and non-digital technologies to facilitate a net zero transition in agriculture focused in low- and middle-income countries
World Bank
Identify solutions for agriculture corporates across their supply chains to enable a transition to net-zero
WE4F
Identified a pool of enterprises to reach acceleration and funding support
IDH
Built a database of 120+ enterprises that focused on transiting farmers to data-driven agriculture
World Bank
Mapped 9 high potential agri-insuretech enterprises
Arya Collateral
Advisory for PE financing by Aspada Investment
SV Agri
Advisory for PE financing by by Lok Capital & Aspada Investment
NAFA
Advisory for PE Financing by Andhra Bank, Federal Bank and LVB
Gramco Infotech
Advisory for PE Financing by Samridhi Fund and Acumen Fund
PRESPL
Advisory for PE Financing by responsibility
Tata mKrishi
Strategy to commercialize mobile-based farmer advisory services
Solidaridad
Design and testing of village supermarkets in South West Bangladesh
GIZ
Design for an agri-focused accelerator
Terragro
Scoping opportunities for sustainable fruit pulp sourcing in Nigeria
C&A Foundation
Program design for a model self sustaining village community around organic cotton in MP
The World Bank
Analysis of innovative agri-business models to help smallholder farmers
KFW
Value chain assessment of rural agri finance delivery models
Hivos
Design of a value chain finance fund for Agri producer companies
Related Work
Creating a livelihood strategy for 2,500 individuals from rural Nagaland
Fund raise and structuring solution for unique agriculture warehousing company serving Indian villages
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In the Media
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agfundernews.com
| November, 02, 2022Good Food Innovation Fund’s first cohort gets USD $1 Million to make better food accessible to Africans- AgFunder Network in conversation with William Mulehi from Intellecap Africa
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Good Food Innovation Fund
| September, 07, 2022Good Food Innovation Fund Awards its 1st Cohort of Enterprises with over USD 1 Million to Support Nutritious and Affordable Food Across Sub Saharan Africa
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The Economic Times
| August, 09, 2022Intellecap, Transform Rural India Foundation launch carbon finance platform for 1 million smallholder farmers
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Krishi Jagran
| May, 17, 2022Govt. of Maharashtra and World Bank Launches SMART AgTech Integration Facility 2022
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KrishiJagran
| April, 01, 2022Impact of Data Governance and Sovereignty on the Livelihoods of Smallholder Farmers: Article by Mayur Varandani and Ravi Gupta, Intellecap in Krishi Jagran
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The Economic Times
| January, 27, 2022Hyderabad based AgriTech startup ‘Our Food’ raises US$ 6Mn. Transaction enabled by Intellecap
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CLEAN ENERGY AND AGTECH SOLUTIONS
- Business planning and scale-up strategies for clean energy enterprises
- Market research and sizing studies for off-grid clean energy market in Africa and Asia
- Enterprise development support to clean energy and ag-tech enterprises on aspects related to market-entry strategy, business plan and model development, financial modelling and investment readiness support
- Roadmaps on applicability and scaling of appliances for productive use of energy
- Strategic plans/models to promote deployment of low carbon technologies and increase their adoption
Climate Finance
- Innovative financing structure design and development like blended finance facility to support and scale the solar energy sector across Africa, Impact Monetization Fund, blended finance mechanism for e-mobility solutions etc.
- Approaches for climate risk mainstreaming to be incorporated by financial institutions and enterprises
- Framework design of climate finance tools like climate impact bonds for India, climate finance fund at the state level, ESG fund, carbon fund etc.
- Climate finance investment landscape assessments across Asia and Africa
NET ZERO STRATEGIES AND ESG
- ESG strategy and roadmap (planning as well as Implementation) development for funds and corporates
- ESG strategy and roadmap (planning as well as Implementation) development for funds and corporates
- Analysis and evaluation of companies on their ESG performance
- Net zero strategy preparation for corporates across sectors like agriculture, transport and FMCG
- Framework and methodological design for investors to maximize their contribution for achievement of net zero
- Tool and framework development for measuring GHG emissions and MRV protocols
Agriculture Development
- Pilots on digitization of agriculture value chains across India and value chain development/assessment studies across Asia and Africa
- Business planning and marketing/branding strategy development for agriculture enterprises for different value chains like tea, bamboo processing, poultry, cotton etc.
- Technical assistance for development of agriculture production clusters across varied states of India
- Livelihood intervention design and implementation for smallholder farmers in India
- Platform design and launch to enable transitioning of farmers to circular agriculture practices
Agriculture Landscape Studies
- Evaluation of landscape of enterprises in India’s post-harvest value chain
- Identification of 150+ enterprises (digital and non-digital) in the agriculture sector across the Global South
- Landscape assessment of agriculture enterprises across India and evaluation of 100+ business models across value chains and geographies to support evidence-based decision making in the sector
- Investment analysis documenting $105+ million in 35 deals for high-scale agriculture enterprises in India
- Development of investible pipelines of agriculture enterprises and facilitation of transactions
- Innovation challenge design and implementation
Our Impact Map
