Study Tour: Mozambique

Tuesday, September 25, 2012 | 12:00 AM to Saturday, September 29, 2012 | 12:00 AM , Maputo and Chimoio

Access Bank of Madagascar (ABM) visited Opportunity Bank of Mozambique (BOM) to learn from its experiences in agriculture value chain finance and low cost delivery mechanisms.  I. Background On September 26-28, 2012, the Agriculture Finance Support...

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Financing Agriculture Forum 2012

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 | 12:00 AM to Friday, March 30, 2012 | 12:00 AM , Kampala

The Financing Agriculture Forum 2012 is part of AgriFin's effort to promote knowledge exchange and foster partnerships among key stakeholders in agriculture finance. During the first two days of this year's Forum, professionals representing a range...

Financing Smallholder Farmers in Africa: Lessons from Five Countries

Thursday, November 03, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Opportunity International (OI) finances smallholder farmers in five countries – Ghana, Rwanda, Uganda, Malawi and Mozambique. The program has been operational for the last two years and is based on the OI Rural Model, initiated in Malawi in 2008....

National Microfinance Bank, Tanzania: The Case of Agriculture Financing by a Transformed Public Sector Bank

Thursday, April 14, 2011 | 12:00 AM

With the support of RIAS B.V., National Microfinance Bank in Tanzania now serves smallholder farmers after having been transformed from a public sector bank in 2005.  Now the largest bank in Tanzania, ranked by customer base and branch network, it...

Study Tour: India

Monday, March 07, 2011 | 12:00 AM to Wednesday, March 09, 2011 | 12:00 AM , Hyderabad

Organized jointly with B-A-LAMP of the Basix Group, the event brought AgriFin's financial institution partners from Africa and Asia and senior World Bank experts to India to learn about innovations in financing smallholder agriculture. During the...