Bundling and partnership-based approaches have enabled agricultural insurance services to grow. This has improved smallholder…
Small Holder Farmers
Finance for Smallholders
The NpM, Platform for Inclusive Finance (NpM), Rural Finance working group undertook a collaborative study…
Agricultural Insurance for Smallholder Farmers: Digital Innovations for Scale
Globally, less than 20 per cent of smallholder farmers have insurance. Low awareness of insurance…
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’…
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…
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…
The Role of Digital Identification in Agriculture : Emerging Applications
Agricultural development is one of the most powerful tools to end extreme poverty. Agriculture accounts…
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…
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…
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…
State of Practice: Savings Groups and the Dynamics of Inclusion – Main Findings
This state of practice report provides a comprehensive overview of the inclusion of vulnerable populations…
LISTEN NOW: The Promise of Satellite Imagery in Financial Services
This webinar looks at how satellite imagery can be used to provide information that financial…
Africa Agriculture Status Report 2017
Agriculture is a proven path to prosperity. No region of the world has developed a…
Exploring Blockchain Applications to Agricultural Finance
This brief by CGAP explores how the technological transformation happening globally can enable inclusive agricultural…
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…
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…
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…
Designing & Marketing Mobile Information & Advisory Services for Women Smallholders
The purpose of this focus note is to introduce the gender theme to the Agri…
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…