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Follow on Google News | Initiative for Global Development Launches IGD AGINVESTNew, business-led initiative will catalyze private investment in African agriculture and enhance social and economic impact
While launching the new initiative, IGD President & CEO Mark Green told IGD Frontier Leaders that “our goal is to build a platform to leverage your collective expertise, insights, resources, and passion for working collaboratively to drive business growth while achieving development impact. IGD AGINVEST is a platform to prove what many of you have told us—that business can have a bigger, more sustainable, and faster impact on achieving development and reducing poverty.” At the Frontier 100 Forum, IGD also released a new report, IGD AGINVEST: Catalyzing Agribusiness Investment in Africa (http://www.igdleaders.org/ “With support from IGD AGINVEST, Seed Co is helping smallholder farmers in Tanzania increase their yields and enhance their livelihoods,” About the Initiative for Global Development The Initiative for Global Development (IGD) is a 501(c)(3) organization that drives significant poverty reduction by catalyzing business growth and investment in the developing world. IGD brings together an influential Frontier Leader network of CEOs and senior executives with the interest and capacity to make strategic investments in high-need regions, with a current focus on Africa. Through its network, IGD fosters global connections, shares frontier market knowledge and insight, and promotes business-driven development to create economic growth and opportunity that can lift generations from poverty. Learn more: www.igdleaders.org MEDIA CONTACT: Jenna Swalin 206-628-6915 press@igdleaders.org End
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