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Building inclusive value chains for smallholders: the role of finance

In: Handbook of Microfinance, Financial Inclusion and Development

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  • Alan de Brauw
  • Johan Swinnen

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Smallholder farmers face numerous constraints that reduce their participation in high value agricultural markets. Two important constraints that can be lifted through financial access are limited access to liquidity to make required investment either directly or to put up as collateral, and risks associated with trying new types of production. Present opportunities, including changing transaction costs due to technology, suggest that agricultural value chain finance models, which relate farmers, finance, and another group of value chain actors in a threeway relationship, can potentially help deliver additional finance to smallholders. We describe the conditions under which agricultural value chain finance can potentially flourish, and broadly describe policy environments that can help foster agricultural value chain finance opportunities for smallholders.

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  • Alan de Brauw & Johan Swinnen, 2023. "Building inclusive value chains for smallholders: the role of finance," Chapters, in: Valentina Hartarska & Robert J. Cull (ed.), Handbook of Microfinance, Financial Inclusion and Development, chapter 11, pages 181-193, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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