by Meredith Husar
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September 4, 2020
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AgEnterprise, AGRICULTURE
Aceli Africa is a new market incentive facility to mobilize $700M in lending to agricultural SMEs and improve livelihoods for over 1 million smallholder farmers and enterprise employees by 2025. The design and implementation of Aceli Africa is based on lending data...
by Meredith Husar
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April 15, 2020
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AgEnterprise, AGRICULTURE
COVID-19 is an extreme shock that is unprecedented in its impact on national, regional, and global markets. The focus of response efforts in developing countries have been on densely populated urban centers, but the majority of people in these countries live in rural...
by Meredith Husar
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November 7, 2019
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AgEnterprise, AGRICULTURE, BIG IDEAS, GDI News, Publications
ISF Advisors and the Mastercard Foundation’s Rural and Agricultural Finance Learning Lab (the Lab) — both initiatives currently housed at Global Development Incubator (GDI) — have released their latest rural and agricultural finance state of the sector report:...
by Meredith Husar
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July 23, 2019
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AgEnterprise, AGRICULTURE, BIG IDEAS, Publications
As one of the latest initiatives being incubated at GDI , the Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance (CSAF) convenes 12 of the world’s leading agricultural small- to medium-sized enterprise (SME) lenders to share learning, identify best practices, and...
by Meredith Husar
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August 29, 2018
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AgEnterprise, CASE STUDIES, Uncategorized
How does GDI design and build social impact startups? It’s a question we get a lot, so we’ve tried to answer it in a new GDI case study on ISF Advisors (formerly the Initiative for Smallholder Finance). Starting with a Dalberg state of the sector market sizing report,...
by Meredith Husar
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January 4, 2018
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AgEnterprise
Two years after publishing our landmark report, More than the Sum of its Parts: Making Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives Work, we’re thrilled to see our research and insights continuing to influence how effective collective action plays out in practice – this time, in the...
