Innovations in rural and agriculture finance

Most rural households lack access to reliable and affordable finance for agriculture and other livelihood activities. Many small farmers live in remote areas where retail banking is limited and production risks are high. The recent financial crisis has made the provision of credit even tighter and t...

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Main Authors: Kloeppinger-Todd, Renate, Sharma, Manohar
Format: Brief
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2010
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154577
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description Most rural households lack access to reliable and affordable finance for agriculture and other livelihood activities. Many small farmers live in remote areas where retail banking is limited and production risks are high. The recent financial crisis has made the provision of credit even tighter and the need to explore innovative approaches to rural and agricultural finance even more urgent. This set of 14 briefs clearly points out the importance of business realities faced by small farmers, including low education levels, the dominance of subsistence farming, and the lack of access to modern financial instruments. Innovations in rural and agriculture finance: Overview Renate Kloeppinger-Todd and Manohar Sharma; Financial literacy Monique Cohen; Community-based financial organizations: Access to Finance for the Poorest Anne Ritchie; Rural banking in Africa: The Rabobank approach Gerard van Empel; Rural banking: The case of rural and community banks in Ghana Ajai Nair and Azeb Fissha; Rural leasing: An alternative to loans in financing income-producing assets Ajai Nair; Determinants of microcredit repayment in federations of Indian self-help groups Yanyan Liu and Klaus Deininger; M-PESA: Finding new ways to serve the unbanked in Kenya Susie Lonie; Biometric technology in rural credit markets: The case of Malawi Xavier Giné; Credit risk management in financing agriculture Mark D. Wenner; New approaches for index insurance: ENSO insurance in Peru Jerry R. Skees and Benjamin Collier; Microinsurance innovations in rural finance Martina Wiedmaier-Pfister and Brigitte Klein; Combining extension services with agricultural credit: The experience of BASIX India Vijay Mahajan and K. Vasumathi; Bundling development services with agricultural finance: The experience of DrumNet Jonathan Campaigne and Tom Rausch
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spelling CGSpace1545772025-11-06T04:32:42Z Innovations in rural and agriculture finance Kloeppinger-Todd, Renate Sharma, Manohar innovation agricultural innovation developing countries agricultural credit financial situation insurance poverty reduction rural finance smallholders Most rural households lack access to reliable and affordable finance for agriculture and other livelihood activities. Many small farmers live in remote areas where retail banking is limited and production risks are high. The recent financial crisis has made the provision of credit even tighter and the need to explore innovative approaches to rural and agricultural finance even more urgent. This set of 14 briefs clearly points out the importance of business realities faced by small farmers, including low education levels, the dominance of subsistence farming, and the lack of access to modern financial instruments. Innovations in rural and agriculture finance: Overview Renate Kloeppinger-Todd and Manohar Sharma; Financial literacy Monique Cohen; Community-based financial organizations: Access to Finance for the Poorest Anne Ritchie; Rural banking in Africa: The Rabobank approach Gerard van Empel; Rural banking: The case of rural and community banks in Ghana Ajai Nair and Azeb Fissha; Rural leasing: An alternative to loans in financing income-producing assets Ajai Nair; Determinants of microcredit repayment in federations of Indian self-help groups Yanyan Liu and Klaus Deininger; M-PESA: Finding new ways to serve the unbanked in Kenya Susie Lonie; Biometric technology in rural credit markets: The case of Malawi Xavier Giné; Credit risk management in financing agriculture Mark D. Wenner; New approaches for index insurance: ENSO insurance in Peru Jerry R. Skees and Benjamin Collier; Microinsurance innovations in rural finance Martina Wiedmaier-Pfister and Brigitte Klein; Combining extension services with agricultural credit: The experience of BASIX India Vijay Mahajan and K. Vasumathi; Bundling development services with agricultural finance: The experience of DrumNet Jonathan Campaigne and Tom Rausch 2010 2024-10-01T14:02:24Z 2024-10-01T14:02:24Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/154577 en fr Open Access application/pdf application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Kloeppinger-Todd, Renate; Sharma, Manohar. 2010. Innovations in rural and agriculture finance. 2020 Vision Focus 18. https://doi.org/10.2499/0896296687.
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developing countries
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insurance
poverty reduction
rural finance
smallholders
Kloeppinger-Todd, Renate
Sharma, Manohar
Innovations in rural and agriculture finance
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developing countries
agricultural credit
financial situation
insurance
poverty reduction
rural finance
smallholders
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