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Agricultural Finance for Smallholder Farmers - Rethinking Traditional Microfinance Risk and Cost Management Approaches (Paperback)
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Agricultural Finance for Smallholder Farmers - Rethinking Traditional Microfinance Risk and Cost Management Approaches (Paperback)
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Even though traditional microfinance has successfully paved the way
for offering financial services to low-income populations without
traditional collateral, many microfinance institutions (MFIs) are
still reluctant to move into rural areas and agricultural finance,
due to the perceived high risks and costs. Daniela Rottger's
research demonstrates how MFIs can mitigate risks and costs of
lending to smallholder farmers by using a combination of proven
traditional microfinance mechanisms while adapting specific loan
features and lending mechanisms to the particularities of
smallholder agriculture. She systematically compares traditional
microfinance risk management mechanisms with agricultural
microfinance approaches and identifies successful strategies. For
this purpose, eight MFIs providing agricultural finance to
smallholder farmers in four countries in East and West Africa
(Uganda, Kenya, Benin, Cameroon) were interviewed and their loan
features and agricultural lending mechanism were analyzed. The
study shows that MFIs can successfully serve smallholder farmers in
rural areas. However, the extent of adaptations is reason enough
not to commit to such an endeavor lightly. A strong commitment
combined with sound in-house knowledge of agricultural value chains
and the flexibility to adapt loan terms and lending procedures to
the particularities of agriculture are needed to successfully
develop and sustain agricultural microfinance.
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