Jessica Pothering

Capital doesn’t easily flow to where it’s most needed, as the failed negotiations at last week’s COP16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia put ...

AgriCapital has for six years served as a bridge to formal financing for Colombia's nearly three million farmers, nearly half of whom live in poverty. The company leans on alternative sources of data and digital underwriting to meet the needs of the country's growers for financing to acquire equipment and inputs.

Hyderabad-based Marut Drones designs unmanned vehicles for crop planting, spraying and surveillance in rural India. It operates a fleet of about 750 drones in 14 states.

How much funding do wealthy countries owe to climate-vulnerable nations? And how does it get to them? The first week of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, closed with stubborn rifts and discouragingly little progress on the summit's major challenges. Impact investors don't have a direct seat at the negotiating table. But Agents of Impact are working back channels to elevate private investors' role in ushering capital where it's most needed.

A debt investment for healthcare access in Southern Africa exposes the impact considerations investors face in different geographies and sectors.

The 700 islands that make up the Caribbean country of the Bahamas depend on the health of their marine ecosystems. The government has inked a deal to exchange $300 million of its sovereign debt for a lower-cost debt package from

In the wake of an agreement at the COP29 climate summit that was derided as woefully inadequate , mobilizing private climate capital is more essential than ever.

Building markets for lifesaving drugs in Africa. Forging channels for daily products in India. Derisking the clean energy pipeline in coal guzzling South Africa.

The South American country is one of the most biodiverse places in the world. Protracted economic, political and security crises have forced Ecuador to

From off-grid solar on rooftops, to clean and quiet electric scooters, to community farms and forest conservation, the most exciting stuff in emerging markets – or anywhere, really – is happening on the ground.