5/06/2023
• Recognising its contribution to improving the agricultural sector to reduce poverty in rural farming areas Madrid, June 05, 2023. The Latin American Association of Development Financing Institutions (ALIDE) has presented an award to the Huruma Fund in recognition of its contribution to improving the agricultural sector by helping to reduce poverty in rural farming […]
22/12/2022
The investments have been committed and made through ten financial institutions in five countries in the amount of 47.4 million euros.
14/12/2022
This is the first transaction in local currency (guaranies) by an international investor.
1/12/2022
With a 12 million euros loan to the financial institution Central Cresol Baser, the fund will help increase financing in the Brazilian agricultural sector by supporting the third largest cooperative group in the country.
23/11/2022
Babban Gona is the largest maize producing organization in West Africa with a network of over 81,000 producers.
29/09/2022
The fund has completed its first investments in Mexico by granting two loans of 3.6 and 12 million euros to the financial institutions ProCrédito and MEGA, respectively.
6/07/2022
The Fund has completed its first investment in Africa by granting a €2.5 million loan to Senegal’s CAURIE microfinance institution and aims to generate jobs benefiting more than 9,700 families in the country.
11/04/2022
The Fund completes its second equity investment in India through this microfinance institution operating in seven Indian states with a network of 201 branches.
11/03/2022
Highlighted as an example of public-private partnership, investment, impact and support for vulnerable farmers.
21/02/2022
The Fund completes its first capital investment in India, directly supporting an agricultural company, which processes, distributes and supplies staple dairy products and fresh produce.
10/02/2022
Huruma investments now surpass 30 million euros in loans and equity.
17/01/2022
The total investment, of over 13 million euros in these three entities, will allow increasing their agriculture loan portfolios, reaching more farmers, and launching specific agricultural products. This adds up to six investments of the Huruma Fund, exceeding 23 million euros invested in finance institutions focused on farming.
13/10/2021
TAF is financed with a European Union donation of 7.7 million euro and open to contributions by other donors.
21/07/2021
Huruma Fund has completed a final closing with total commitments of 120 million euros. The Fund has been able to mobilise capital from a wide range of private investors in only 9 months of fundraising.
21/06/2021
The Huruma Fund, managed by GAWA Capital and financed by the European Union, FONPRODE, COFIDES and private investors and savers, has formalised a first operation in Peru in a Savings and Loan Cooperative (COOPAC) called “Norandino”, based in Peru.
15/02/2021
The Huruma Fund is the largest social impact fund in Spain (120 M EUR) aimed at financing smallholder farmers in poor rural areas in Latin America, the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia, and the only one with a “blended finance” structure.
19/11/2020
COFIDES has presented the Huruma Fund today, an impact investment fund that will provide financing to smallholder farmers or those excluded in rural areas of Latin America, the Caribbean, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia.