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Working with Smallholders: A Handbook for Firms Building Sustainable Supply Chains

Smallholder farmers are becoming more important players in global food chains as agribusiness companies seek to secure future food supplies for the world’s growing population. For some crops, smallholders are already an important source of production, but their role is expanding as land constraints limit the potential for growth in plantation agriculture and as the locus of future food market growth shifts to emerging markets. Those markets face increasing demand for affordable, nutritious foods for low-income urban populations.

Toll-Roads PPPs: Identifying, Mitigating and Managing Traffic Risk

This guide has been developed to provide technical officials in developing country governments, their advisors, and other interested stakeholders, with an understanding of the potential traffic risk in highway PPP projects. This  guide sets out the sources of traffic risk, how it affects the viability of projects, and actions that governments can take to maximize project success.

The Urban Rail Development Handbook

This handbook synthesizes and disseminates knowledge to inform the planning, implementation, and operations of urban rail projects with a view
toward:

  • Emphasizing the need for early studies and project planning
  • Making projects more sustainable (economically, socially, and environmentally)
  • Improving socioeconomic returns and access to opportunities for users
  • Maximizing the value of private participation, where appropriate
  • Building capacity within the institutions that implement and manage public projects.

Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Officer Handbook

GCA has developed the Climate-Resilient Infrastructure Officer Handbook (CRIO Handbook) with support from the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management of the Netherlands and in close partnership with the World Bank Group (WBG), the African Development Bank (AfDB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF), Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Islamic Development Bank (IsDB), Public-Private Infrastructure Advisory Facility (PPIAF) of the WBG, and UNOPS.

 

Renewable Infrastructure Investment Handbook

One of the most important challenges for institutional investors in the next several years is dealing with an environment of low-yielding opportunities combined with the rising need to deploy large amounts of capital and meet growing liabilities. At the same time, one of the most important challenges for the world as a whole is dealing with global warming and its proven economic impacts and negative consequences for humanity. While seemingly disparate, these two challenges have only recently converged to a point where they become synergetic. Renewable infrastructure has reached sufficient maturity to constitute a sound investment proposition and the best chance to reverse global warming

Understanding Power Purchase Agreements (Comprendre les contrats d’achat d’électricité)

This handbook is intended to provide an overview of PPAs and the obligations, risks and remedies that are found within them. Our group of authors, all whom contributed their time on a pro-bono basis, includes contributors from governments, development banks, private banks and leading international law firms.

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