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Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade
About FAST
A global, member driven, non-profit association, FAST represents lenders and producers dedicated to bringing sustainable products to market.
FAST brings together this diverse group of stakeholders for the first time to work collectively to increase the number of producers in developing nations who can successfully access quality trade finance, tailored to their business needs, as they enter sustainable markets.
Other News
- FAST Member RegCharles Shares Insights on Impact Investing at Sustainable Banking Forum - 14 May 2014
- FAST President & CEO Noemi Perez Honored with CCLAQ Award - 19 Nov 2013
- Information is the key to SME finance - 15 Nov 2013
- Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade (FAST) Launching a New Strategy at SCAA - 22 May 2013
At the beginning of 2014, FAST, with the support of GIZ and the Amazon Alternative (TAA) and in collaboration with IRIS launched a project to develop impact indicators for the sustainable forestry industry sector. The project seeks to generate a set of indicators and standards based on FAST's broader metrics for agricultural SMEs which measure and report the social, economic and environmental impacts of investments made in the sustainable forestry sector.
Read more: FAST- GIZ Indicators for Investments in Sustainable Forestry: Big Steps Forward in 2014.This Fall, our member Fairtrade Canada welcomed Chief Adam Tampuri, a cashew farmer from Ghana, to visit many partners and stakeholders across Canada such as Fairtrade licensees, and universities and towns supporting Fair Trade.
Read more: Fairtrade Canada Welcomes Chief Adam Tampuri, Ghana Cashew Farmer and Chair of Fairtrade Africa.Help our member Root Capital raise $100K in the Skoll Social Entrepreneurs Challenge! Root Capital is once again participating in the Social Entrepreneurs Challenge, a fundraising campaign launched by the Skoll Foundation that every year seeks to help some of the world's leading social entrepreneurs raise funds to support their work. The Challenge runs until December 5.
The top 20 organizations to get the greatest number of donations (not dollars) from unique donors before noon on Tuesday, November 11th, will each win $5,000.
Read more: Root Capital seeking to raise $100K in the Skoll Social Entrepreneurs Challenge.
