Agrifinance plays a very significant role in providing crucial access to capital for farmers and SME agribusinesses, allowing them to invest in necessary equipment, land, and seeds, enabling them to enhance their productivity, yields, and grow their operations and income. Due to the inherent uncertainties in agriculture, especially volatile weather patterns, unpredictable crop yields, unstable commodity prices, and access to input and output markets, which can considerably impact on the ability of farmers and agribusinesses to repay loans, creating the perception of a high-risk investment for lenders, particularly banks, compared to other sectors.

This upcoming innovation hub on agrifinance, scheduled to take place on December 11th at 8 am EDT, will be looking at various de-risking methods that lenders use in agrifinance (such as crop insurance, weather-index insurance, contract farming, climate smart agriculture, credit guarantees and risk sharing arrangements, data analytics and precision agriculture, capacity building…), and determining the most effective methods based on practical experiences of the members about what worked and what didn’t.

This is a member and affiliate only event. If you have not received an invitation to join, register through the member portal.