Watch Our Video: The Potential of Data Analytics in Smallholder Finance
24 May 2019

Data Analytics (DA) has the potential to unlock groundbreaking opportunities for investors and farmers in smallholder finance. Financial Service Providers, Digital Service Providers, and donors must work together to realize this potential. 

Watch our video below to learn more about the business case for data analytics.

Read the full Learning Brief: Big data could mean big opportunity to dig deeper.

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Success story of AGRA, MUCOBA Bank and SELF Microfinance Fund partnership
13 May 2019
AGRA
AGRA

AGRA, MUCOBA Bank and SELF Microfinance Fund partnership has seen smallholder paddy farmers in 18 villages in Iringa Rural District, Tanzania receive digital disbursed agro loans totaling about $1M in three years effective 2018. Watch the full video here. 

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Building multiple markets: The case for smart digital investments
24 Apr 2019
Learning Lab, ISF Advisors
Farmland

The thirteenth blog in the Pulse series examines the opportunities and lessons learned of connecting financial services with technology solutions for smallholder farmers. 

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Rural finance providers: A new segmentation for an expanding market

Report: In a series of blogs, ISF Advisors and the Mastercard Foundation Rural and Agricultural Finance Learning Lab (the Lab) will introduce major concepts and frameworks that will anchor our upcoming State of the Sector report for rural finance. Building on the “industry model” developed in our 2016 Inflection Point report, these frameworks aim to bring further clarity and insight to the three layers of the market: Rural clients, financial service providers (FSPs), and the capital markets. We hope that by sharing early versions of this thinking we can stimulate debate and discussion across the sector about what is needed to continue to enhance access to rural, agricultural financial services.


GSMA Report on E-Commerce in Agriculture

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Utilizing e-commerce in agriculture offers several benefits, including improved income for...
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Transition Pathways: A Dynamic View of How Rural Households Evolve

Analysis: In a series of blogs, ISF Advisors and the RAF Learning Lab will introduce major concepts and frameworks that will anchor our upcoming State of the Sector report for rural finance. Building on the “industry model” developed in our 2016 Inflection Point report, these frameworks aim to bring further clarity and insight to the three layers of the market: Rural clients, financial service providers, and the capital markets. We hope that by sharing early versions of this thinking we can stimulate debate and discussion across the sector about what is needed to continue to enhance access to rural, agricultural financial services.

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