By understanding the broader ecosystem around smallholder finance and rural enterprises, ISF identifies specific roles and leverage points for stakeholders at all stages of growth and development throughout the smallholder ecosystem.
To learn more about our research, explore our comprehensive Briefing Series below or engage with our shorter multi-media resources here.
Inflection Point suggests that while current activities to expand financial inclusion are not sufficient to meet smallholder demand, concerted efforts around customer centricity, progressive partnerships, and smart subsidy have the potential to change the sector’s growth trajectory to better serve the world’s smallholder farmers.
This landscape report highlights the current status and future development of agricultural insurance for smallholder farmers.
This briefing note aims to assess the role of grant funding in smallholder finance and understand how it can be used to unlock financing for millions of smallholders.
This briefing note interrogate how different impact-oriented agribusiness funds combine public and private capital to build a more inclusive agricultural market.
This briefing note explores the causes of low uptake in digital credit for smallholders to better understand how we can develop concrete product solutions to jump-start adoption of digital credit products by them.
This briefing note explores the latest practices from the climate finance community and the agricultural finance community to understand how new combined models can boost returns and attract new investors.
This briefing note details how philanthropic investment can play an influential role in mitigating foreign exchange risk.
This briefing note explores how innovative lenders are using new data sources and analytics to assess the creditworthiness of borrowers.
This briefing note explores three channels through which value chain financing models can be delivered and identifies how these models can group “enablers” to best serve smallholders.
As a case study of a TechnoServe project aiming to increase incomes of smallholder coffee farmers in East Africa, this briefing note focuses in particular on the value of technical assistance to increase access to finance, crowd-in the private sector, achieve scale, and generate value for an industry.
This briefing note discusses how agricultural technical assistance in the developing world maps to addressing various specific financing constraints for smallholder farmers.
This briefing note categorizes and characterizes the different kinds of agricultural technical assistance in operation in developing countries around the world.
This briefing note features an overview of how 150+ finance providers currently offer direct-to-farmer finance, using a range of approaches to address core challenges associated with lending directly to these smallholders.
Drawing on groundbreaking aggregate analysis of leading social lenders’ lending portfolios and metrics, this briefing note examines current lending practices among social lenders, considers the future trajectory of the sector, and highlights opportunities for investors and funders to support the sector’s future growth.
This briefing note reflects on the role of capital markets within the context of historical agricultural sector development by considering the role of government policy in enhancing rather than replacing credit provided by private actors.
This briefing note takes stock of the existing landscape of smallholder impact and risk measurement and devises tools and suggestions to align these efforts for greater future impact.
This briefing note explores what is required for a healthy, competitive smallholder banking sector, and identifies investment opportunities for public and commercial funders seeking to support smallholders.
This briefing note provides an overview of the market size and scope of local bank lending to smallholder farmers.
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