This blog is written by Aly-Khan Jamal, Dalberg, Shyam Sundaram, Dalberg, and Simon Allan, Dalberg Agricultural finance is essential for achieving development objectives. Expanding access to agricultural finance provides agricultural...

The USAID Bureau for Food Security invited the World Council of Credit Unions to speak about their work to advance agricultural lending across their member network.

The Value Chains project supports smallholder farmers through people-to-people engagement in commercial value chains to increase agricultural productivity using a facilitative, market systems approach to increase farmer incomes and contribute...

Learn about FSA’s model and lessons learned in agricultural finance and reflected on what might be applicable in the development context in a few key takeaways!

Read up on the array of actors operating in different parts of the ecosystem for agri-food and rural SME investment focusing on access to finance and complementary services.

There are substantial links between good laws and access to finance. This conversation with the Feed the Future Enabling Environment for Food Security project unpacks the enabling environment's key role...

Advances in smart agriculture and agribusinesses will not only increase the overall resilience and survival rates for billions of people, they also offer the linked effects of increased nutrition, increased...

Microinsurance was designed to help at-risk farmers to increase their resilience, but existing products have suffered from low demand. New research shows that an innovative loan product may provide an...

Learn how a Kenyan microfinance institution has developed a model that reaches high volumes of remote smallholder customers with its agriculture-specific Kilimo Booster loan, despite having interest rates as high...

Much has been written about the power of public and philanthropic capital to catalyze impact by supporting approaches capable of attracting private investment, but determining how to provide pathways and...