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Unlocking Innovations for Farmers Via Non-traditional Financing

Next Billion Jul 3, 2018
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Unlocking Innovation for farmers Via Non-Traditional Finance
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Giving Compass’ Take:

• Next Billion discusses how to give smallholder farmers access to more capital, along with agriculture innovations, in order to break the cycle of poverty.

• What are aid organizations and impact investors doing to make sure that people in rural area have the resources they need not just to survive, but to thrive as well? Non-traditional financing (NTF) is key.

• Here’s how agritech startups are helping to address this area.


While the estimated 500 million farmers worldwide make up 6 percent of the global population, they play a vital role in the global economy, producing food for a substantial proportion of the world’s population and supporting over 2 billion poor women and men who rely on agriculture for their livelihoods. Yet, many of these farmers still experience poor yields, have uncertainty in trading and limited market access, earn low profits, and are vulnerable to climate shocks and volatile financial markets that keep them reliant on subsistence or marginal commercial farming activities.

Access to finance is not only a core need of small holders, but also an opportunity for them to increase their agricultural innovation.

In the effort to address production and financing challenges that smallholder farmers face, scalable and sustainable agricultural innovation uptake is worth exploring; this will help to further understand how innovation adoption and finance are interrelated.

These and other examples are beginning to contribute to an underdeveloped body of knowledge that demonstrates how non-traditional financing may be critical to unlocking innovation processes among smallholder farmers and may represent an untapped opportunity to enable these farmers to break the cycle of poverty.

Read the full article about a new era of financing farmers by Clara Yoon at Next Billion.


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    Building Shared Understanding for Children and Families

    Giving Compass' Take: • FSG profiles the Staten Island Foundation, which has created an early childhood initiative with equity as a focus and a goal of solving core issues through close community engagement. • Among the tactics this foundation found useful is to make sure there's room for all perspectives and to encourage a healthy dialogue for systems change. Are we doing enough of that in other sectors? • Here are some other community-driven solutions that show promise. As those who have tried to do it before know, convening members of the community around a common issue can be difficult. But when you are able to successfully convene actors around a shared vision, there is a sense of hope that is contagious. The Staten Island Foundation, which first began working with FSG on Tackling Youth Substance Abuse in 2011, partnered with FSG this year to create the Staten Island Alliance for North Shore Children and Families, an early childhood initiative to improve wellbeing for children from birth to 8 years old. FSG supported The Staten Island Foundation in engaging a diverse group of cross-sector stakeholders to develop a common agenda for change, including a guiding vision, equity principles, and preliminary indicators and outcomes (e.g., family engagement, academic success, school readiness, and child health). The initiative’s steering committee worked to ensure that equity stood at the core of this initiative: members developed strategies to intentionally confront systemic barriers to opportunity. As a first step, this included disaggregating data by race, ethnicity, and geography, and inquiring as a group about the disparities that existed.


“Finance is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for productivity growth – it can unlock critical constraints but just as critical are unlocking of constraints in agricultural systems, such as access to markets for other inputs, storage, and logistics.."

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