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Using Index Insurance to Promote Climate-Smart Agriculture
Abstract Climate change is resulting in an increased frequency and severity of droughts in countries such as Senegal and Ethiopia. For smallholder farmers who are dependent on rainfed agriculture and ...
Challenges and opportunities for innovation in agri-SME trad...
Organized in partnership with SAFIN Add to calendar and join meeting via Webex About the webinar While the COVID-19 crisis has caused disruptions in African agricultural value chains, access to finan...
Results of the AgriFin Survey on Covid-19
The survey received 82 responses globally; 40% of which came from financial institutions, 30% from international organizations, and the rest from regulators, government agencies and consulting compani...
The Role of Non-Bank Financial Institutions in the COVID-19 ...
Organized in partnership with SAFIN Add to calendar and join via Webex About the webinar Non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) play important roles in agricultural finance, particularly in serving...
The Revolution of Mobile Phone-Enabled Services for Agricult...
The provision of information through mobile phone-enabled agricultural information services (m-Agri services) has the potential to revolutionize agriculture and significantly improve smallholder farme...
How to Address Unique Risks in Agriculture Credit Guarantee ...
What are the key success factors for the agriculture Credit Guarantee Schemes (CGS)? Are there any design features/interventions to minimize the risk? This paper tries to draw some lessons learned spe...
How Can Matching Grants in Agriculture Facilitate Access to ...
Matching grants are an instrument aimed at promoting private sector development that have been used extensively over the past years, in particular for agriculture development. this paper focuses on th...
Agri-SME Finance and COVID-19: Issues to Consider in the Sho...
An introductory webinar jointly organized by SAFIN and AGRIFIN This webinar was the first of a series of virtual discussions dedicated to understanding the implications of the COVID-19 crisis on agri-...
Webinar: Ensuring Stable Food Supply During the COVID-19 Cri...
The agriculture finance team moderated the webinar: Ensuring Stable Food Supply During the COVID-19 Crisis. The panel of experts from the Agriculture and FCI GPs and IFC discussed challenges and oppor...
How Would Agricultural Finance Look in a “New Normal”?
Augustin Baharanyi, the Director for Planning at the Ministry of Agriculture in the Democratic Republic of Congo is discussing with his colleagues at the Ministries of Planning and Finance how exactly...
Coronavirus and Cooperative Financial Institutions, an Agend...
Coronavirus and Cooperative Financial Institutions, an agenda for the future The pandemic is affecting severely ample segments of the global population, including members of Cooperative Financial Inst...
To Avoid Food Insecurity, Keep Finance Flowing
As lockdowns in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) curtail economic activity around the world, the agricultural sector seems to be less affected than other industries, at first glance. Yet enterpr...