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Funds & Projects

Due diligence in global agricultural supply chains can often only be implemented jointly by private sector companies, civil society organisations and local partners. The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) supports such cooperations with various funding opportunities. 

Below you will find an overview of completed and current funding opportunities, competitions and funds.

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Due Diligence Fund

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and SASI are promoting promising approaches to fulfilling corporate due diligence with a new competition fund. Together with the agri-food sector and its suppliers, we want to achieve greater sustainability in global agricultural supply chains and improve the living conditions of smallholders and plantation workers. The focus is therefore on practical implementation on the ground in BMZ's partner countries. Companies based in Germany can apply together with one or more non-profit partners until 24 June 2022. Projects are funded with a sum of up to EUR 123,000 over a period of up to 6 months. 

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Innovation for Agriculture (i4Ag)

i4Ag is a fund for the gender-sensitive promotion of innovations in the agricultural and food industry. The aim of the fund is to identify potential and to pilot, further develop and scale it with a comprehensive network of partners. In total, i4Ag is currently promoting and trialling 40 innovations, many of which are located in the global agricultural supply chains of raw materials such as cotton, cocoa, coffee, bananas and many more in around 32 countries. All projects have a model character and are intended to be transferable and scalable to other supply chains. 

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Idea competition: feminist & fair

Organised by SASI on behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development, “Feminist & Fair: The Future of Agricultural Supply Chains” was a new idea competition open to corporations, civil society, academics and/or standards organisations. Applications could be submitted until 1 August 2022. The competition was designed to foster the implementation of a feminist development policy and focuses in particular on the establishment of fairer global agricultural supply chains and the execution of transformative projects to include marginalised groups, especially women and girls.

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Initiative for Climate Smart Supply Chains (I4C)

The Initiative for Climate Smart Supply Chains (I4C) is a funding program that supports innovative projects by multi-stakeholder consortia involving the private sector. Thereby, projects work on the topic of climate smart supply chains. The I4C brings together a wide range of actors along the supply chain of selected agricultural commodities and funds their cooperation projects in partner countries of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) to combat climate change. The I4C aims at making global agricultural supply chains more climate-friendly and resilient.

In 2022 consortia were able to apply for funding by handing in their project proposals.

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Sub-Saharan Cotton Initiative

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) startet  four pilot projects as part of its Sub-Saharan Cotton Initiative in the end of 2021 and beginning of 2022. The initiative aims to make cotton and textile supply chains in sub-Saharan Africa more sustainable by mobilising the commitment of the private sector and promoting innovative ideas. During the next three years, consortia of international and/or local companies, with the participation of civil society organisations, will implement four projects in seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa: Benin, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Mozambique, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia. Own contributions of the consortia total almost EUR 5 million.

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