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Innovare, a financial advisory firm specialized in climate-smart agriculture, offers a "Lease-to-Own" Facility for agricultural mechanization. This program benefits investors, manufacturers, SMEs, farmer organizations, and consumers by providing access to equipment acquisition capital. Through innovative financing, participating SMEs can improve production, yields, and income, while investors enjoy attractive returns with minimized risks. The program addresses challenges of funding and mechanization in African agriculture, promoting local food production and livelihood improvement.
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Innovare: A financial advisory firm focused on investment opportunities in climate-smart agriculture Innovare “Lease-to-Own” Facility: Financing Agricultural Mechanization “A Virtuous Circle which Benefits all Participants” • Investors: Attractive, asset-backed, risk-mitigated returns • Manufacturers/Vendors: Increased equipment sales • SMEs: Access to equipment acquisition capital • Farmer Organizations and Smallholder Farmers: Directly: Access to mechanization equipment acquisition capital Indirectly: With more SME demand, FOs and SHFs can increase production and sales while improving livelihoods • Consumers: Increased production of locally-sourced food
Transforming African Agriculture through Mechanization • Challenges: • Lack of funding • Lack of mechanization • Our response: Lease-to-Own Financing • Alternative asset financing for SME agribusinesses which have difficulty accessing capital • Enables smallholder farmers to increase production, yields and income • For investors, attractive, high-impact, risk-mitigated returns
Innovare Lease Financing Facility: Financing Agricultural Mechanization • Capital Markets Funded • Investor “friendly” • Asset Backed, “Lease-to-own Financing” • Replicable & Scalable • Unique Partnerships – Vendors, Guarantors + Users • Prime interest in appropriate agriculture mechanization: • Training and technology advisory for new equipment users • Equipment financing itself always on commercial basis
Partnerships with Vendors in Multiple Agricultural Value Chains Fertilizer Blending Tractors Milk Chillers Grain Processing/ Storage Weighing and Packaging Food Production
Investor Protection and Risk Reduction: Innovare Notes: 4 year, 7% with Robust Collateral Backing 25% Down payment at the time of the lease 50%+ Vendor buybacks in the case of defaults 50% External Guarantees on the lease 100% Asset Financing: Issuer owns the equipment until all lease payments are made
For Further Information: John Riggan Riggan.John@InnovareAdvisors.com US +1.215.842.9272 Mary Jane Potter MaryJane.Potter@InnovareAdvisors.com US +1.203.444.5854 www.InnovareAdvisors.com