How to better serve smallholders: Key learning from INNOVATE’s 3-year initiative on non-traditional finance for agriculture
- Partner: Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA), International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
- Publication Type: Blog
- Date: May 12, 2020
- Team: Kyla Levin-Russell, Clara Yoon
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This blog, co-written by MEDA and MarketShare Associates, summarizes key learnings from INNOVATE’s three-year initiative assessing the potential of non-traditional finance to enable adoption of smallholder agricultural innovations in South Asia, South America and East Africa. The blog shares insights on customer centricity, smallholder products and services, smallholder household decision-making, and policy and regulatory transformation. The authors also provide recommendations for implementers, policy makers, donors, and the private sector to re-think how programs and policies are implemented, and how products and serviced are designed and delivered.
