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Financial Innovation for Smallholder Families: Lessons from CGAP's Partnerships with Providers
CGAP's approach to understanding how financial service providers can more effectively serve smallholder families includes understanding smallholder demand for financial services and driving innovation in financial products, services, and practices.Publication
Using Satellite Data to Scale Smallholder Agricultural Insurance
Smallholder families that use agricultural insurance can increase investments in more productive farming and nonfarming ventures as they feel more confident in managing related risks. However, significantly scaling the use of agricultural insurance among smallholders has been difficult in many parts of the world, especially in Africa.Publication
Exploring Blockchain Applications to Agricultural Finance
Learn about how distributed ledger technologies can be applied to agricultural finance in developing countries.Publication
Digitizing Agricultural Payments: Uganda's Coffee Value Chain
This is the story of how the United Nations Mobile Money for the Poor in Uganda worked with a coffee exporter to digitize one of the country’s most important cash crops. Learn about the dynamics of digitizing agricultural value chains and how organizations from different sectors worked to digitize Uganda’s coffee value chain.Publication
Female Smallholders in the Financial Inclusion Agenda
This Brief explores the gender gap in financial inclusion among smallholder families in Tanzania and Mozambique through unique survey data that allow for a nationally representative look at smallholders.Publication
Jordanians and Syrian Refugees: Remittances and Financial Services Use
How do you increase financial inclusion when the most vulnerable and financially excluded part of your population becomes host to a massive, even more vulnerable, and even less financially included group of refugees? Building on a quantitative survey, this research shows that for financial services to work for refugees, they also need to work at scale in-country.Reading Deck
Insights from the Household Survey in Nigeria
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National Survey and Segmentation of Smallholder Households in Nigeria
This survey explores the agricultural and non-agricultural activities, financial practices and interests, and challenges and aspirations of over 3,300 smallholder families throughout Nigeria.Infographic
Financial Services in Humanitarian Crises
This infographic illustrates how access to financial services can help people overcome adversity more quickly and sustainably.Publication