How can Agricultural Value Chain Finance (AVCF) help expand financial access for smallholder agrifood chains in Southeast Asia?
Title | How can Agricultural Value Chain Finance (AVCF) help expand financial access for smallholder agrifood chains in Southeast Asia? PDF eBook |
Author | de Brauw, Alan |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 2021-08-13 |
Genre | Political Science |
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Smallholder farmers in developing countries face several different constraints limiting their ability to reach their production potential. One such constraint is access to formal finance; smallholders and other agricultural value chain participants frequently cannot access credit necessary to invest in new crops or technologies, deal with risks and shocks, and or savings products to safely carry wealth from harvest to planting. New technologies, markets, and government priorities in several Southeast Asian countries combine to suggest new opportunities are emerging to overcome long-standing challenges to expanding agricultural finance: Those challenges include: (i) high transaction costs to financing in rural areas; (ii) managing risks unique to agriculture; and (iii) knowledge about how to deliver agriculture-based products.
Agricultural value chain finance
Title | Agricultural value chain finance PDF eBook |
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Publisher | Food & Agriculture Org. |
Pages | 186 |
Release | 2007 |
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ISBN | 9789251059425 |
Financing Agriculture Value Chains in India
Title | Financing Agriculture Value Chains in India PDF eBook |
Author | Gyanendra Mani |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2018-01-09 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9811059578 |
This book examines the successful private, public and civil society models of agriculture value chains in India and addresses relevant challenges and opportunities to improve their efficiency and inclusiveness. It promotes the value-chain approach as a tool to improve access to finance for small holder farmers and discusses the possible structure of and regulatory framework for the ‘National Common Agricultural Market’— a term that featured in the Indian Finance Minister’s 2014–15 budget speech, and which is aimed towards standardizing and improving transparency in agricultural trade practices across states under a single licensing system. The book deliberates on the potential of developing innovative financial instruments into the value chain framework by supporting tripartite agreements between producers, lead firms and financial institutions. Its fourteen chapters are divided into three parts—Agriculture Value Chain Financing: Theoretical Framework, Agriculture Value Chain Financing in Cases of Select Commodities; and Institutional Framework for Agriculture Value Chain Financing. Since the concept of value chain financing is being considered as a future policy agenda, the book is of great interest to corporations dealing with agricultural inputs and outputs; commercial, regional, rural and cooperative banks; policy makers; academicians and NGOs.
Access to Finance for Smallholder Farmers
Title | Access to Finance for Smallholder Farmers PDF eBook |
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Release | 2014 |
Genre | Electronic book |
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Working with Smallholders
Title | Working with Smallholders PDF eBook |
Author | International Finance Corporation |
Publisher | World Bank Publications |
Pages | 324 |
Release | 2018-12-05 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1464812780 |
This handbook addresses the challenges that agribusiness companies face when working with smallholder suppliers in their value chain.
Financing agriculture for a more profitable rural economy
Title | Financing agriculture for a more profitable rural economy PDF eBook |
Author | Mofolo, L. |
Publisher | CTA |
Pages | 4 |
Release | 2018-02-14 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
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Farmers and other actors in agricultural value chains find it difficult to access or provide the financial services the sector needs – services that are critical for the development of agricultural products, and are integral to upstream and downstream processes. At the Brussels Development Briefing Revolutionising finance for agri-value chains, experts considered innovative solutions that could improve the livelihoods of smallholder and rural producers, and promote economic transformation in the poorest countries.
Financial services and logistics innovation within agri-food value chains: A conceptual framework
Title | Financial services and logistics innovation within agri-food value chains: A conceptual framework PDF eBook |
Author | Ambler, Kate |
Publisher | Intl Food Policy Res Inst |
Pages | 8 |
Release | 2023-01-03 |
Genre | Political Science |
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Finance and logistics services for agricultural value chains based on technological innovations exist in several LMICs, but they are not often extended to small holders or SMEs working in the agricultural midstream. We consider the constraints to adoption of those services faced by smallholders or SMEs. Finance and logistics improvements hold promise for increased employment, but research is needed to understand where employment gains are most likely. All value chain innovations must carefully consider possible equity-efficiency tradeoffs to ensure change does not negatively affect poor and vulnerable populations.