We offer solutions to Financial Institutions (FI’s) in emerging markets to support them in their efforts to provide financial services to the underserved Food & Agriculture sector and to rural communities. Solutions include capital through equity investments, advisory & venturing and blended finance. We strive to offer a synergetic combination of these solutions, aiming to create a more enabling financial ecosystem for the FI and its borrowers.

Rabo Partnerships offers advisory services and inclusive business ventures solutions to support financial institution partners in emerging markets. Our longstanding relationships with our Partner banks bring about amazing results. Please read the story on NBS Malawi, where knowledge and training is combined with funding from impact lenders, all ingredients to enable financial solutions for the underserved food & agricultural sector in Malawi.

To reach the smallest farmers, digital tools are key. Rabo Partnerships is developing data driven solutions that enable banks to reduce costs and risks of serving small scale farmers, such as a market place, credit scoring, loan monitoring based on remote sensing and marketing tools. Coop Bank Ethiopia, who has similar cooperative roots as Rabobank, aims to reach an additional 3 million farmers in the next 3 years. Read all about their ambition and how Rabo Partnerships will support them in this (digital) journey.

Rabo Partnerships is an equity investor in multiple (non-)financial institutions in LATAM, Sub-Saharan Africa and India. We are a patient capital provider that supports its investees with a focus on impact and return. We have recently diversified our exposure by adding tech-driven NBFIs that are aligned strategically with a focus on scalable impact through digital solutions. Read all about our equity investment in Avanti last year.

Rabo Partnerships develops scalable Impact finance solutions that allow commercial banks, whether Rabobank or our Partnerbanks, to move beyond business as usual by blending public and private capital. For example, the AGRI3 fund is a blended finance vehicle set up to mobilize capital at scale to support sustainable agriculture and combat deforestation. The impact story on Agro Sao Jose shows how collaboration between commercial banks and impact funds can unlock capital to support farmers in their sustainable transition journey.