Rethinking Agri-Business Investments Through the PandemicAcross the world, lives have changed dramatically in the last few months. We have all been affected in some way by the tragic deaths from Covid-19, lost job...
Before and during COVID-19, an e-voucher initiative makes a difference for Kenyan farmersVictoria Muteti, a 44-year old farmer living in Kenya’s Makueni County, has many reasons to be satisfied. In January 2020, she was able to harvest more than ...
New Farming “Ecosystem” in Uganda Empowers SmallholdersCrops have been plentiful in recent months for Kizito Edward, a 29-year-old smallholder who plants maize, coffee, and bananas on his small farm in Buikwe in ...
Coffee, Cocoa, and the CoronavirusHans Perk, Regional Director Africa and Global Agricultural Sector Specialist at Oikocredit talks about...
New IFAD fund launched to help prevent rural food crisis in wake of COVID-19The International Fund for Agricultural Development has launched a new multi-donor fund, the COVID-19 Rural Poor Stimulus Facility...
How can the COVID-19 crisis help us to accelerate the digitization of payments?Proyecto Capital's objective is to promote financial inclusion of Conditional Cash Transfers recipients through digitizing payments...
ITC launches COVID-19 dashboard and offers free access to market analysis toolsThe International Trade Centre has launched a new dashboard to monitor temporary trade measures adopted by governments towards COVID-19...
NBSSI Mastercard Foundation Recovery and Resilience Program for MSMEsAn Emergency Program to support micro-, small-, and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups has been launched by Mastercard Foundation...
Helping small businesses navigate through COVID-19COVID-19 pandemic has badly hurt companies particularly micro, small, and medium-sized entreprises...
Support family farmers as frontliners in the fight to eradicate COVID-19The 16 countries of the Asian Farmers' Association for Sustainable Rural Development have not been spared from the spread of COVID-19...
Partner in the Spotlight: Yuri Soarez Dillon of the Inter-American Development Bank Yuri Soares tells us about what is shaping the future of agricultural finance in Latin America and the Caribbean...
COVID-19: How does microfinance weather the coming storm?Hundreds of COVID-19 cases, and economic lockdown responses to it, could wreak on small buisnesses, and the economy as a whole...
IFAD to host Global Donor Platform for Rural Development secretariatIn January 2020, the International Fund for Agricultural Development became the host of the Secretariat of the Global Donor Platform....
The potential impact of COVID-19 on SDG 2 (food security) – in China and globallyOECD Interim Economic Outlook confirmed the severe impact of COVID-19 outbreak on China's and the rest of the world's economy...
MIX, SCOPEinsight, AGRA launch partnership to address obstacles constraining agricultural businessesThe partnership will create market transparency that is needed to unlock financing for agri-SMEs in emerging markets...