July 2025 Funding | $1,850,232
We’re halfway through the year and it’s our biggest month yet! We’re excited to approve just under 2 million dollars in funding to six transformative organizations working to support smallholder farmers in Rwanda, Indonesia, Peru, Cambodia, India, and Brazil! This month’s funding will impact over 10,000 people across the globe! Through our partnerships with these incredible organizations, we are supporting initiatives that give smallholders farmers the opportunity to thrive. Check out all that they are doing with their funding below.
Afri-Farmers Market | Rwanda
Afri-Farmers Market supports groups of farmers, providing them with input loans, technical support, and a secured market for their harvests. Using their 3-year, $300,000 no-interest loan, Afri-Market will fund input loans targeting smallholder farmers who do not own land. The funds will also cover the cost of cold-storage trucks and a dedicated field team, strengthening farmer services through farm-gate cold chain logistics and training in best agricultural practices. By the end of the 3-year project, Afri-Farmers Market aims to expand its input loan reach from 120 to 1,950 smallholder farmers, and increase farmer incomes by 45%.
Blue Ventures Conservation | Indonesia
Blue Ventures Indonesia (BVI) delivers training and technical assistance to local community partners who are reaching remote areas of the country’s vast archipelago. Through their 3-year $271,515 grant, BVI will extend their financial inclusion services to 25 new community partners by June 2028, reaching an additional 4,745 fishers. WFMF funding will support BVI to expand their technical advisory financial inclusion services and also indirect costs for Blue Ventures Conservation (UK), which provides programmatic guidance and fundraising assistance to the Indonesia program. The WFMF project will also support 36 community partners implementing VSLA programs with 901 fishers, all receiving financial literacy training. Approximately 30-40% of Village Savings and Loan Association members are expected to develop group enterprises focused on fishing-related value addition activities.
IBIS Rice Conservation Company | Cambodia
The Wildlife Conservation Society, a global non-profit based in the US, launched the IBIS Rice initiative in 2009 to engage smallholder farmers in and near wildlife sanctuaries in the production of wildlife-friendly, organic rice through incentives and premium prices. The program implementer, IBIS Rice Conservation Company (IRCC), will use their 3-year, $419,911 grant to cover all expenses for the post-pilot phase of the cowpea initiative. This includes program learning expenses, start-up packages for land-poor farmers, and more. With this support, IRCC aims to provide intensive cowpea value chain support to 290 farmers, mostly subsistence or landless farmers, and engage 10 IBIS Rice producer groups with approximately 1600 total members.
Kheyti Inc. | India
Kheyti Inc. is a non-profit working with smallholder farmers in several Indian states. Their “Greenhouse-in-a-Box”, coupled with agronomy services, is an affordable modular greenhouse that uses 90% less water, grows up to 7 times more food, increases climate resilience, and gives farmers a steady dependable income. They will use their $198,500 Foundation grant to support a greenhouse rental pilot program designed to serve the most vulnerable farmers who lack the capital or land to build their own greenhouses. Kheyti aims to provide 400 small-scale farmers with access to increased income through these rentals in the coming year.
NESsT | Brazil
NESsT Brazil is a nonprofit that runs an accelerator program providing grants, loans, and technical assistance to nonprofit associations, cooperatives, and social enterprises working in sustainable value chains and promoting livelihoods in highly remote areas of the Amazon. NeSst will use their 3-year, $360,000 grant to support a small cooperative of guarana producers, which face a critical period between July and September during the loan season. NeSst Brazil projects that members will increase their incomes by 18%.
Producers Direct | Peru
Producer's Direct Peru partners with local coffee cooperatives, providing their farmer members with digital and in-person technical support, climate-smart financial advice, and microloans. With their 3-year, $300,000 grant, Producers Direct will support female farmers living on less than 4 dollars a day, who are diversifying their coffee farms with fruit and vegetable production. Specifically, WFMF funding will support the loan capital lent to the farmers, cover the cost of administering the loans, as well as the costs of providing digital farming advice and in-person financial literacy training. By the end of the 3-year project, 538 loans of ~$400 will have been disbursed to 414 female farmers. Producers Direct plans to increase participants’ income by 10% alongside strengthening climate resilience.