OUR WORK

Our work at the nexus of transformative finance, social equity, and ecological resilience addresses the following cross-cutting topics.

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Farm & Forestry

Agricultural Lender Education: Closing the Financial Information Gap in Conservation Agriculture

This project involves providing the agricultural finance community with information about the benefits of conservation and regenerative agriculture practices. ...

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Food Systems

Regenerative Agriculture Infrastructure Finance

This project will identify finance opportunities and pathways that work to build processing, distribution, and market infrastructure for regenerative ...

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Business & Human Rights

The Growing Concern of Social Protection in the Garment and Textile Sector

Senior Fellow Liz Umlas comments on the lack of social protections supply chain workers around the world face, particularly in ...

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Frameworks & Data Analytics

Croatan Institute Launches RAISER Premium

Croatan Institute launched the premium version of our new ESG research platform, RAISER, an interactive web app curating our rigorous, ...

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Farm & ForestryFood Systems

New Report on Investing in Soil Health

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s (WBCSD) Soil Investment Hub in collaboration with Croatan Institute, launched the “Soil Investment ...

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Business & Human Rights

Business and Human Rights: The time is now for radical change

Senior Fellow Liz Umlas reflects on the 10th annual UN Business and Human Rights (BHR) Forum and the need for ...

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Equity & InclusionResilient Communities

Croatan Institute REEF’s Program Releases New Paper on Racial Equity Investing

On October 27th, Croatan Institute’s REEFS program released a new report on racial equity investing across asset classes.

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Equity & Inclusion

Redirecting Capital to Accelerate Racial Equity Webinar Series

Today, the investment community must be collaborators willing to invest transformative capital in communities of color -- both to address ...

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Farm & ForestryFood Systems

New Report on the Regenerative Agriculture and Human Health Nexus

Croatan Institute with the support of Basil's Harvest released a new report exploring the evidence connecting agriculture practices to human ...

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Frameworks & Data Analytics

Croatan Institute Launches the RAISER Beta App

Croatan Institute launches the (free!) beta version of our new ESG research platform, RAISER (Research, Analytics, and Insights for Social ...

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Equity & InclusionFarm & ForestryFood Systems

Croatan Institute with the Upper Coastal Plain Releases New Study on Healthy Food Access

Croatan Institute in collaboration with the UCPCOG and many other partners released a comprehensive study and asset map on healthy ...

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Accountability

Senior Fellow Bill Harrington Submits ESG Counter-Proposal to International Organization of Securities Commissioners (IOSCO)

Bill’s counterproposal calls out the IOSCO negligence in conflating ESG analytics with credit ratings.

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