FMO invests across the value chain - enhancing food security, supporting sustainability and promoting inclusive development.
Over the coming decades, the global population will increase to over 9 billion with fewer resources available. FMO has made Agribusiness a priority to help meet these challenges by focusing investments across the value chain.
We offer various forms of financing, including long-term loans, equity, mezzanine and working capital finance. We tailor our funding package to meet the changing needs of your agribusiness company.
FMO finances companies throughout the agribusiness value chain:
• Primary production: crops, livestock, production, and fishing
• Processing: crushing, storage, handling & packaging
• Trade: trading, and exporting
• Distribution: logistics, and retail
Yalelo is a fully integrated tilapia farm in Zambia. FMO supports this leading regional aquaculture player boosting local-for-local production and affordability of proteins. Yalelo has a positive impact on the local economy and job creation (it currently employs 700 people) and is contributing to the development of the broader local aquaculture sector by providing smallholder tilapia farmers with inputs and training.
FMO and Initiatief Duurzame Handel (Sustainable Trade Initiative) offer support to co-finance smallholder farmers with the supply chain companies that source directly from these farmers.
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FMO’s Farmer Finance program works with agribusiness companies and financial institutions on projects that enhance the livelihoods of (smallholder) farmers. Through our financing, expertise and grants, farmers and build up their knowledge and invest in their farms with the aim of becoming financially sustainable.
Farmer Finance leaflet
In 2011, FMO selected Agribusiness as one of its focus sectors. We conducted a performance review to assess the development effectiveness and impact of FMO’s agribusiness investments made between 2012- 2017.
Sector evaluation - agribusiness, food & water