Transcript Growpact - GreenTech Community

‘’Internationalization and innovation’’
Rabobank:
Growpact:
Date:
Javier Alvarez de Eerens – Manager International desk
Bart den Hertog – Manager Growpact
14-06-2016
Good start, Great finish
‘’Social impact – Financial return’’
Bart den Hertog
Manager Growpact
[email protected]
The Growpact dream
‘’By 2025 Growpact will support 50 Growpact-entrepreneurs,
who reach 50.000 small scale farmers, that produce over
200.000.000 vegetable seedlings a year’’
Startup with international support
Viscon Group – Engineering your success
Mechanizing and Automating Production
Processes in Agro & Food
‘’Viscon aims to be the most excellent independent
supplier, for solid, smart & innovative solutions in
Agro & Food, worldwide’’
Our story - history
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1927
1967
1990
2004
Horti
Systems
Control
Software
Fresh
Produce
Hatchery
Automation
Supplies
Industrial
washing
Vinovo
Logistics
Growpact – Viscon Group
• New business development (emerging markets)
• Contribute to food safety and food security
• Leading company with a green heart
Growpact - Partners
(Local) entrepreneurship is the key to success!
Why Growpact?
• Local entrepreneurship – local commitment
• Farmers are the new Bankers
World Challanges
• Climate change
• Food (and nutrition) security
• Increasing of the world population – Urbanization
• Lack of (technical) knowledge
Climate change
Developing countries are
often times among the
most vulnerable to
climate change, given
their fragile ecosystems.
High percentages of dry
land or desert make
countries highly
vulnerable to droughts
and floods
Source: World Resources Institute
Food – and nutrition - Security
Food security "exists when all people, at all times,
have physical, social and economic access
to sufficient, safe and nutritious* food
to meet their dietary needs and food preferences
for an active and healthy life"
(UN World Food Summit)
* nutrition security refers to essential vitamins and minerals
required for a healthy development, esp. of children
World population - Urbanization
Think Smart!
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• Lack of knowledge
• Access to technology/machinery
Smart-tech:
Low investment
Fully manual
Minimal amount electricity needed
Integration of proven technology
The Growpact Toolbox
GrowPact Greenhouse & Storage
GrowPact Seeding Essentials
GrowPact Tools
GrowPact Academy
Growing Materials
GrowPact Watering Essentials
Growpact Target Market
Growpact Farmers
Small – medium scale farmers
404 million (SMF’s)
< 2 ha.
Cooperatives
Prominent growers
Outsourcing of young plant production
Test new varieties
Urban farmers
Urbanization
Distribution channel / urban infrastructure
Growpact Investor
Together with a local entrepreneurs Growpact will
collaborate with:
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Farmer cooperatives / local companies
Impact Investors
NGOs & United Nations
(local) Governments
Research and Innovation centers
Growpact Business model
• Initial investment €200K
• Plastics/Machinery
• Franchise Fee
• Local Entrepreneur
• Capital investment
• ROI / Interest
• Minority shareholding
• Young plants
• Smart techniques
Growpact Impact
Social return
• Employement
• Education
• Food safety and Food quality
Economic return
• Regional development
• Entrepreneurship
• Gate to emerging markets
Financial return
• Profit (ROI)
Growpact challenges
Considered the financial risk and local circumstances:
• For a financial institution, the initial investment of a Growpact nursery
(€200K) seems to low. How can Growpact/the local entrepreneur get
access to finance?
• How to find the balance between social- & finacial impact and return of
investment?
‘’Internationalization and innovation’’
Javier Alvarez
Manager International Desk
[email protected]
Challenges or opportunities
• Client support on the African continent
• Banking solutions with Rabobank, Rabobank
Foundation/Development and Dutch Government
• Partnerships with important banks on the continent
• Organiser of the Rabobank- NABC Ambassadors Diner
Legenda
• Chairman of the Dutch Trade and Investment Board
Africa working group
Challenges or opportunities
RABO
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Banking 4 Food
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96Nb0SvL93g&list=PLWn_yAIZ1SrJj
yGN22Gg1jrsHxd9Fvrfn