Leveraging Climate Finance for Agribusiness SMEs to Scale Up Climate Resilient Agriculture in East Africa: Recommendations for Policy and Practice

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in supporting sustainable development and increasingly towards building adaptation and resilience in Africa's food and agriculture sectors. However, most agribusiness SMEs operating in small-scale agriculture are in dire need of busine...

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Autores principales: Shilomboleni, Helena, Verberk, Rene, Solomon, Dawit
Formato: Brief
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121183
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Solomon, Dawit
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description Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in supporting sustainable development and increasingly towards building adaptation and resilience in Africa's food and agriculture sectors. However, most agribusiness SMEs operating in small-scale agriculture are in dire need of business finance to help them flourish and climate-proof their value chains as variable weather increasingly threatens their supply sources of raw materials, disrupts their operations, and increases costs of maintenance and materials. Climate-related risk hazards not only increase the risk and unpredictability of SMEs' revenue streams but also reduce private sector investments into the sector even further. Financial institutions such as banks may avoid the risk by not financing agribusiness SMEs or increasing the cost of financing, such as enforcing more stringent collateral requirements or higher interest rates (Csaky et al., 2017).
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spelling CGSpace1211832025-11-11T16:38:38Z Leveraging Climate Finance for Agribusiness SMEs to Scale Up Climate Resilient Agriculture in East Africa: Recommendations for Policy and Practice Shilomboleni, Helena Verberk, Rene Solomon, Dawit agriculture climate-smart agriculture agribusiness adaptation scaling up Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play an important role in supporting sustainable development and increasingly towards building adaptation and resilience in Africa's food and agriculture sectors. However, most agribusiness SMEs operating in small-scale agriculture are in dire need of business finance to help them flourish and climate-proof their value chains as variable weather increasingly threatens their supply sources of raw materials, disrupts their operations, and increases costs of maintenance and materials. Climate-related risk hazards not only increase the risk and unpredictability of SMEs' revenue streams but also reduce private sector investments into the sector even further. Financial institutions such as banks may avoid the risk by not financing agribusiness SMEs or increasing the cost of financing, such as enforcing more stringent collateral requirements or higher interest rates (Csaky et al., 2017). 2022-07 2022-09-09T14:52:02Z 2022-09-09T14:52:02Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121183 en Open Access application/pdf Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa Shilomboleni H, Verberk R, Solomon D. 2022. Leveraging Climate Finance for Agribusiness SMEs to Scale Up Climate Resilient Agriculture in East Africa: Recommendations for Policy and Practice. AICCRA Policy Brief. Accelerating Impacts of CGIAR Climate Research for Africa (AICCRA).
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agribusiness
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Shilomboleni, Helena
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Solomon, Dawit
Leveraging Climate Finance for Agribusiness SMEs to Scale Up Climate Resilient Agriculture in East Africa: Recommendations for Policy and Practice
title Leveraging Climate Finance for Agribusiness SMEs to Scale Up Climate Resilient Agriculture in East Africa: Recommendations for Policy and Practice
title_full Leveraging Climate Finance for Agribusiness SMEs to Scale Up Climate Resilient Agriculture in East Africa: Recommendations for Policy and Practice
title_fullStr Leveraging Climate Finance for Agribusiness SMEs to Scale Up Climate Resilient Agriculture in East Africa: Recommendations for Policy and Practice
title_full_unstemmed Leveraging Climate Finance for Agribusiness SMEs to Scale Up Climate Resilient Agriculture in East Africa: Recommendations for Policy and Practice
title_short Leveraging Climate Finance for Agribusiness SMEs to Scale Up Climate Resilient Agriculture in East Africa: Recommendations for Policy and Practice
title_sort leveraging climate finance for agribusiness smes to scale up climate resilient agriculture in east africa recommendations for policy and practice
topic agriculture
climate-smart agriculture
agribusiness
adaptation
scaling up
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121183
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