International Summit on Sustainable Agriculture Value Chains and Rural Finance in Sub-Saharan Africa
The summit will focus on strengthening agricultural value chains, enhancing rural finance mechanisms and promoting sustainable farming practices to drive economic resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Training in Agricultural and Rural Finance (FAR)
This training aims at strengthening the skills of finance professionals to better address the challenges of the agricultural and rural sectors.
Six Cross-Cutting Truths: Climate Shock-Proofing Women’s Financial Inclusion
This blog summarizes cross-cutting findings from a series of case studies highlighting Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA), Village Enterprise’s and SEWA’s climate-smart innovations from the FinEquity Community that use financial coupled with non-financial interventions that are seeing to improve women’s resilience to climate events. What are we learning?
Building Women’s Climate Resilience: What Can Financial Service Providers Do?
This blog is part of a FinEquity blog series highlighting how organizations in the Community of Practice are thinking about improving women’s resilience to climate events through inclusive finance, analyzing some recent trends, and providing some recommendations for those supporting innovators on this journey.
ACRE Africa Launches Financial Literacy Training for Smallholder Farmers in Zambia
In partnership with Agora Microfinance, Synergy Seeds, and the Sustainable Agriculture Foundation Africa, ACRE Africa kicked off a financial literacy training program aimed at empowering 85,000 smallholder farmers across Zambia by December 2025
Economic Empowerment of Rural Women? Make Sure That She Controls the Income
This paper presents findings from a comprehensive qualitative research study, including focus group discussions, key informant interviews, and an extensive literature review. It offers practical recommendations for stakeholders working in rural finance and gender empowerment.
Harnessing Agriculture Data for Access to Finance
The objective of this study is to explore how to facilitate data-driven financing by consolidating fragmented farmer data into a centralized platform.
Working to Promote Food Security in Burkina Faso
Claire Lossiané of YIKRI, winner of the 2023 European Microfinance Award, reflects on the MFI’s programs to combat malnutrition.
Gender Responsive Approaches to Building Women’s Climate Resilience in Africa
Reflections on the climate session held in the FinEquity Africa Annual Convening 2024 in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, exploring challenges and proposing what will be required for approaches with effective design and delivery of climate-smart financial solutions that will help women build resilience.
Responsible Agricultural Practices of a Cocoa Buying Company in Ghana
This case study shares extensive recommendations to the trader, its financial investors, the government, and other stakeholders based on the findings.