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Finance Issues Impacting Smallholders

  1. Microfinance: The Savings Group Model

    2012-04-20 One key aspect of those who live in poverty is a lack of options. Personal finances are one area in which lack of options can have a huge impact on a family and community. Sometimes income and/or expenses are irregular, leaving folks vulnerable. The opportunity to borrow a small amount of money...
    Microfinance Loans Poverty Village Savings an... Savings Groups

  2. Practical Action Publishing - Enterprise Development and Microfinance (Journal)

    Connecting practice and research ISSN1755-1978 (Print) |1755-1986 (Online) Since 1990,Enterprise Development & Microfinance(EDM)has offered practice-based insights into the role of markets, enterprises and financial services in reducing poverty and stimulating economic development. This...
    Journal Microfinance Economic Development

  3. SAFIN Network

    The Smallholder and Agri-SME Finance and Investment Network (SAFIN) is a partnership of actors that are committed to aligning their efforts to scale up access to financial services for agri-SMEs and for small commercialfarms. We are financial institutions, philanthropic foundations, social...

  4. FARM-D - Forum for Agricultural Risk Management in Development

    Welcome to the Forum for Agricultural Risk Management in Development (FARM-D)! This is your community of practice about agricultural risk management (ARM). It’s a collaborative space for exchanges and updates on ARM. A space to share your experiences, find experts and learn from others on...

  5. A Guide to Rapid Market Appraisal (RMA) for Agricultural Products

    This Guide to Rapid Market Analysis Methods is a product of the experiences and lessons learnt while implementing agro-enterprise projects in Latin America, Africa and S.E Asia. This manual is one of a series of agro-enterprise publications developed through a collaborative learning alliance...

  6. Marketing of Agricultural produce

    2016-04-12 Marketing is the heart of every business! Until a sale is made, all we are doing isspending money! Operations thrive or die based on whatthey get from marketing. In Nigeria, marketing channel for thedistribution of a commodity may varyfrom one part of the country toanother.
    West Africa

  7. Working With Smallholders: A Handbook for Firms Building Sustainable Supply Chains

    2018-01-01 The purpose of thisWorking with Smallholdershandbook is to enable the development of more sustainable, resilient and productive supply chains for agribusinesses and to illustrate the substantial development impact. Smallholder farmers are both an opportunity and a challenge for food and...
    Finance Small Scale Farmers Microfinance Supply Chains Sustainability

  8. Farm Business Planning Tools and Ideas

    2012-12-20
    Business Farm Plan

  9. USAID - Food Security and Agriculture Core Course

    The Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS) calls forexpandingwork in improving nutrition and resilience. This course underscores the Agency's focus onfood security development and incorporates the Agency’s vision for food security and agriculture development under the GFSS. Participants will...
    Food Security

  10. Farm Business School - Training of Farmers Programme

    2011-01-20 Dramatic changes are taking place in farming worldwide as a result of globalisation, liberalisation, and rapid urbanisation. Farmers are intensifying existing patterns of production and diversifying their farm enterprises in an attempt to improve their livelihoods. Technical know-how is not...
    Farm Plan Farm Budget Farmer Field Schools Asia

  11. IFAD - Market Access and Value Chains

    Every community, no matter how neglected or remote, has one tremendous resource: its people Three quarters of the poorest people in the world live in the rural areas of developing countries. Mostof them depend on agriculture for their livelihoods. Climate change, a growing global population, and...