We invest in funds that promote sustainable and climate-smart agricultural practices
Our efforts to combat climate change and its disproportionate effects on disadvantaged communities extends to the sustainable agriculture sector, as well as our financing of renewable energy and environmental sustainability innovations. Climate change contributes to crop depletion, degradation of land, and clean water limitations, all which pose serious challenges to satisfying agricultural demand and sustaining rural livelihoods of the 70% of the world’s poor who live in rural agricultural areas. Agricultural communities face many challenges on top of climate change, including limited viable financial options and lack of knowledge and training on sustainable and climate-smart agricultural practices. Empowering agricultural communities with these tools can be a powerful way to fight climate change.
Our approach focuses on lending to intermediaries that connect farmers and agricultural businesses with more robust, consistent economic opportunities and training to improve the sustainability of their practices, thereby improving sustainable livelihoods for agricultural producers, strengthening global food supply chain systems, and contributing to greater global food security. We aim to strengthen and grow emerging intermediaries that finance sustainable and climate-smart agricultural practices.
Check out our Sustainable Agriculture news, features, and resources below.
Our 2025 Community Investment Note® Impact Report, “Resilient Communities, Lasting Impact”
The 2025 Community Investment Note® impact report, “Resilient Communities, Lasting Impact”, explores how resilience is essential to building a more inclusive and sustainable financial system.
Our 2024 Community Investment Note® Impact Report, "Taking Action for Communities & Climate"
Calvert Impact's 2024 impact report, including new impact data, stories, and photos from their Community Investment Note portfolio.
2023 Year in Review
After sharing our 2023-2025 Strategic Plan in January, Calvert Impact executed on its strategy to bring new products to market to increase connectivity between the capital markets and communities.
Calvert Impact releases 2023 Impact Report: 'Demonstrate, Educate, Transform'
Report shows cumulative impact of Community Investment Note® and new products
Our 2023 Impact Report, "Demonstrate, Educate, Transform"
Our 2023 Impact Report features the impact we and our portfolio partners have had on markets, the environment, and communities around the world throughout 2022 and 2023.
Climate United Submits Bid to Manage Part of EPA’s $14 billion National Clean Investment Fund
Climate United today announced the submission of its proposal to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Clean Investment Fund award competition, part of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
Borrower Spotlight: Small Businesses Supported by Advance Global Capital
AGC’s investments deliver tailored financing to local partners, who in turn provide flexible working capital to small and medium enterprises, so they can scale and positively impact local economies.
Borrower Spotlight: Sustainable Companies Supported by eco.business Fund
The eco.business Fund supports biodiversity conservation, sustainable use of natural resources, and climate change mitigation and adaptation in Latin America, the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa.
Our 2022 Impact Report, "Responding to the Need for Transformative Change"
Our 2022 Impact Report features the impact we and our portfolio partners have had on markets, the environment, and communities around the world throughout 2021 and 2022.
