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How Can Microfinance Institutions Help Their Clients Build Climate Resilience?
In the second post of the FinDev Blog Series on Climate Change and Financial Inclusion, we look at how both financial and non-financial services will be crucial in helping MFI clients adapt to climate change.
By Calum Scott, Opportunity International
FinDev Blog
What Do Microfinance Clients Need to Adapt to Climate Change?
In the first post of the FinDev Blog Series on Climate Change and Financial Inclusion, we explore insights from Rwandan smallholder farmers on building climate resilience through microfinance.
By Emanuella Christensen, Olga Biosca, Michael Mikulewicz, Liberata Mukamana, Patrick Mugiraneza & Karin Helwig
FinDev Blog
The Power of Community-Based Organizations to Mobilize Farmers’ Savings
A Scale2Save project in Cote d’Ivoire shares what they’ve learned working with farmer cooperatives as financial agents.
By Celine Stevens, World Savings and Retail Banking Institute
FinDev Interview
How To Keep the Human Touch While Digitizing Agricultural Value Chains
Hedwig Siewertsen of AGRA discusses the different digital solutions for financing agricultural value chains that were shared at African Microfinance Week this year.
FinDev Interview
WhatsApp and Algorithms: How to Get Financing to Farmers in East Africa
The founders of Ugandan fintech Emata share how their solution is helping dairy farmers and their cooperatives access finance and manage operations.
FinDev Blog
Can Insurance Make Small-Scale Solar Energy More Accessible?
Small-scale solar installations have been an important innovation to bring electricity to remote areas, but they face many risks which jeopardize their ability to provide a continuous energy supply.
By Julia Beneke
FinDev Blog
Do Flexible Loans Improve Access to Agricultural Credit?
Results from a recent survey in Kenya question the impact of flexible loan terms on how much credit smallholder farmers take up. But the issue may be that loans were still not flexible enough.
By Fredrick Onyango Odhiambo
FinDev Blog
Where Is the COVID-19 Stimulus for the Smallholders Who Feed the World?
Without more support, the global health crisis could become a global food crisis
By Colin Christensen, One Acre Fund
FinDev Interview
Protecting Livestock and Livelihoods from Climate Change
European Microfinance Award winner, APA Insurance, is working with Kenyan smallholders to help them build resilience to the effects of climate change such as droughts and flooding.
FinDev Interview
Speaking the Common Language of the SDGs
Jean-Marc Debricon of Alterfin discusses impact investing in rural Africa as the region prepares for African Microfinance Week. Held in Burkina Faso from 21 to 25 October 2019, this major regional conference provides a unified African platform for discussion of microfinance issues.