Idepro believes that providing working capital loans to small-scale producers will enable them to invest…
Agriculture
Digital Extension Services Improve Farmer Productivity in Uganda
In the West Nile region in Uganda, one agriculture extension worker serves 2,000 farmers, demonstrating…
Digitalizing Rural Financial Ecosystems- Journey and Learnings from Digitalization of Dairy Value Chain in Nepal
With more than 66 per cent of Nepalese dependent on agriculture, the introduction of digital…
Climate Risk Insurance: Economic Impacts of Natural Hazards on Vulnerable Populations
The South Pacific region is extremely vulnerable to natural hazards like cyclones, droughts, earthquakes, tsunamis…
Bridging the Financing Gap for Agriculture Cooperatives Through Data-driven Decision-making in Senegal
In 2019, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) wanted to explore how data driven decision-making…
Collecting and Applying Data on Smallholder Agriculture During COVID-19
Collecting data and understanding rural and agricultural livelihoods have always been challenging. Now, facing COVID-19…
How Gender Impacts Insurance Perceptions
Pula, which provides accessible, scalable insurance solutions for smallholder farmers by bundling insurance with the…
Digital Agriculture Maps
The GSMA AgriTech’s Digital Agriculture Maps report (DAMs), produced in collaboration with IDH Farmfit, offers…
Lending Volumes to Agricultural SMEs Falling Short
The 2020 CSAF State of the Sector Report reflects on the present and future impacts…
Finance for Smallholders
The NpM, Platform for Inclusive Finance (NpM), Rural Finance working group undertook a collaborative study…
Innovative Agri-Finance Challenge Fund Playbook
The Innovative Agri-Finance Challenge Fund Playbook is a collaborative effort to assist challenge fund managers,…
Market Scoping Study for the Digitization of the Fish Value Chain in Uganda
Over the past five years, UNCDF has been working to stimulate private sector engagement in…
The Hidden Costs of Cash to Ghana’s Cocoa Sector
In Ghana, cash is the primary payment method used to purchase cocoa, with over 90%…
Agricultural Insurance for Smallholder Farmers: Digital Innovations for Scale
Globally, less than 20 per cent of smallholder farmers have insurance. Low awareness of insurance…
The GSMA AgriTech Toolkit for the Digitisation of Agricultural Value Chains
The Toolkit for the Digitisation of Agricultural Value Chains is a collection of resources that…
Digitizing Value Chain Payments: A digital solution from Ghana
In Ghana, Tanager has been complementing the development of agribusiness markets by linking agribusinesses with…
Case Study: Strengthening Agricultural Supply Chains Through The Delivery of Financial Services
This case study by the Fund for Rural Prosperity looks at the lessons learned from…
Digital Credit Scoring for Farmers: Opportunities for Agritech Companies in Myanmar
Despite rapid urbanisation in recent years, agriculture dominates Myanmar’s rural economy. Sectoral challenges, like farmers’…
Digitising Payments in Agricultural Value Chains: The Revenue Opportunity to 2025
This report from the GSMA explores the potential revenue opportunity of digitising agricultural payments for…
Experiences in Gender-Sensitive Solutions to Collateral Constraints
A common theme that arises in agricultural lending is the topic of collateral. There is…
Big Data Could Mean Big Opportunity
At nearly USD 150 billion, the gap in smallholder financing remains wide, and financial institutions…
Agriculture and Food
The World Bank’s Agriculture and Food resource gives an insight into the innovation, infrastructure and resources…
Digital Credit Scoring in Agriculture: Best Practices of Assessing Credit Risks in Value Chains
Farmer-level data collected from digital channels can be used to evaluate and rank potential borrowers…
Pathways to Prosperity: 2019 Rural and Agricultural Finance State of the Sector Report
The last three years have seen a rapid acceleration in technology-driven innovation, which has powered…
Unlocking Smallholder Insights for Financial Service Providers
Driving financial inclusion necessitates that we introduce changes in the very architecture of the financial…
The Digitalisation of African Agriculture Report, 2018-2019
Agricultural transformation is a priority in the policy agenda of African governments in their quest…
Segmentation of Smallholder Households: Meeting the Range of Financial Needs in Agricultural Families
There are an estimated 500 million smallholder farmers in low- and middle-income countries. And, despite…
Small Holder Families Data Hub
The CGAP Smallholder Families Data Hub provides interactive dashboards which give easy access to more…
AgriPay – the Zanaco Farmers’ Account
AgriFin is leveraging the power, convenience, and prevalence of mobile phones to help smallholder farmers…
Geodata for Inclusive Finance: Data Privacy Study
This report contains key issues identified regarding the collection, storage, use, and sharing of client…
The Role of Digital Identification in Agriculture : Emerging Applications
Agricultural development is one of the most powerful tools to end extreme poverty. Agriculture accounts…
The Digitalisation of African Agriculture Report, 2018-2019
Agricultural transformation is a priority in the policy agenda of African governments in their quest…
Endline Evaluation: AgriFin Mobile
Agri-Fin Mobile was a six-year, multi-country programme that partnered with key, local private actors to…
E-commerce in Agriculture: New Business Models for Smallholders’ Inclusion into the Formal Economy
Selling produce through online channels enables farmers to bypass intermediaries, leading to improved income for…
Smallholder Households: Distinct Segments, Different Needs
The 500 million smallholder households worldwide are ready for targeted innovation and solutions, but they…
DigiFarm: A Digital Platform for Farmers
M-PESA has achieved great uptake within Kenya and is including more people financially. Safaricom and…
Guide to ICT solutions for smallholder farmer
The ICT4AG Handbook, A quick guide to ICT solutions for smallholder farmers, provides an overview of the…
Impact of Mobile Technology and Policy on Agriculture in Uganda
Mercy Corps AgriFin Mobile Program has been working in Indonesia, Uganda and Zimbabwe on establishing…
Insights as to how to engage women farmers in digital financial services
This infographic from Mercy Corps gives six insights as to how to engage women farmers in digital…
Handbook: Digital Financial Services for Agriculture
This handbook by IFC offers financial services providers an understanding of smallholder farmers and agricultural…
Africa Agriculture Status Report 2018
Agriculture is key to Africa’s future. The continent has most of the world’s arable land,…
Digitizing Agricultural Payments: Uganda’s Coffee Value Chain
This paper from CGAP tells the story of how the United Nations Mobile Money for…
Space for Agriculture in Developing Countries
This report is produced under the International Partnership Programme (IPP), a five-year, £152 million programme…
Africa Agriculture Status Report 2017
Agriculture is a proven path to prosperity. No region of the world has developed a…
Launching into space: using satellite imagery in financial services
This study is part of FiDA’s broader exploration of the promises and limitations of big data…
Exploring Blockchain Applications to Agricultural Finance
This brief by CGAP explores how the technological transformation happening globally can enable inclusive agricultural…
Can Big Data Shape Financial Services in East Africa?
The volume of digital data created by users on the African continent is growing. With…
Using Digital Tools to Expand Access to Agricultural Insurance
Risk is an inherent feature of agriculture around the globe. The ever-present uncertainties in weather,…
Driving Innovations in Smallholder Engagement: Insights in Service Delivery and Finance
This report on smallholder engagement lays the foundations of what is possible when analytical rigor…
Finding the Best Fit: One Acre Fund’s integration of digital tools in Kenya
This case study from USAID is part of a series highlighting the integration of digital…
Blockchain Meets Agriculture: Supply Chain Transformation Possibilities
This is part 5 of a Digital Green Revolution (in India) series. It focuses on…
Rural Finance: Recent Advances and Emerging Lessons, Debates and Opportunities
Rural finance remains very challenging and in developing countries it is generally weak, despite the…
Farming for a Profit: Technical Guidance for Smallholder Financial Planning
Smallholder farmers need to understand the production costs and profitability of their existing farming systems…
Digital Financial Services in Uganda: Uganda’s Tea Payments Profile
Uganda experiences the favourable climate that is necessary for tea growing. Tea growing was introduced…
Crop Insurance, an Idea Worth Seeding
Across sub-Saharan Africa, small farmers are the bedrock of national and regional economies—unless the weather…
Inflection Point: Unlocking growth in the era of farmer finance
The 2012 report titled Catalyzing Smallholder Agricultural Finance, produced by Dalberg with support from the…
Financial Diaries with Smallholder Families
How do small-scale agricultural producers manage their money, and what do their strategies tell us…
Understanding Demand, Driving Innovation: Smallholder Households and Financial Services
This paper from CGAP serves as background for the Smallholder Diaries and national surveys of…
A Well-Timed Nudge
A small “nudge” at the appropriate time was as powerful as a heavy subsidy—and may…
ICT in Agriculture: Connecting Smallholders to Knowledge, Networks, and Institutions
The livelihoods of the world’s poor rise and fall with the fate of agriculture. Enhancing…
Why Don’t Farmers Use Cell Phones to Access Market Prices? Technology Affordances and Barriers to Market Information Services Adoption in Rural Kenya
Providing smallholder farmers with agricultural information could improve economic development, by helping them grow more…