A Technical Review Of Select De Risking Schemes To Promote Rural And Agricultural Finance In Sub Saharan Africa

Author : Szebini, A., Anyango, E., Orora, A., Agwe, J.
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789251349045

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A technical review of select de-risking schemes to promote rural and agricultural finance in sub-Saharan Africa by Szebini, A., Anyango, E., Orora, A., Agwe, J. Pdf

In recognition of the well-understood challenges with promoting rural and agricultural finance, the need for a more systemic approach to promoting financial inclusion is gaining traction in the thinking and programming approaches of the community of practice. Within this system-level view, the concept of de-risking the overall operating environment of agricultural value chains is recognized as a critically important factor. Accordingly, numerous project-based and stand-alone “de-risking” arrangements have recently been launched or are at various stages of design throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The generation of evidence of performance, impact and cost effectiveness is critical to validating the relevance of these types of schemes, as well as to informing design improvement and implementation, for the sake of scalability and replicability. This study takes stock of these experiences in an effort to contribute to building up the evidence base to help inform the future strategy and design of similar programmatic interventions.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789251350898

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FAO publications catalogue 2021 by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

This catalogue aims to improve the dissemination and outreach of FAO’s knowledge products and overall publishing programme. By providing information on its key publications in every area of FAO’s work, and catering to a range of audiences, it thereby contributes to all organizational outcomes. From statistical analysis to specialized manuals to children’s books, FAO publications cater to a diverse range of audiences. This catalogue presents a selection of FAO’s main publications, produced in 2021 or earlier, ranging from its global reports and general interest publications to numerous specialized titles. In addition to the major themes of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, it also includes thematic sections on climate change, economic and social development, and food safety and nutrition.

Author : Marito Garcia,Charity M. T. Moore
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821388983

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The Cash Dividend by Marito Garcia,Charity M. T. Moore Pdf

This book provides in-depth descriptions and analysis of how cash transfer programs have evolved and been used in Sub-Saharan Africa since 2000. The analysis focuses on program features and implementation, but it also highlights political economy issues and current knowledge gaps.

Author : Mr.Amadou N Sy,Mr.Rodolfo Maino,Mr.Alexander Massara,Hector Perez Saiz,Preya Sharma
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781484385661

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FinTech in Sub-Saharan African Countries by Mr.Amadou N Sy,Mr.Rodolfo Maino,Mr.Alexander Massara,Hector Perez Saiz,Preya Sharma Pdf

FinTech is a major force shaping the structure of the financial industry in sub-Saharan Africa. New technologies are being developed and implemented in sub-Saharan Africa with the potential to change the competitive landscape in the financial industry. While it raises concerns on the emergence of vulnerabilities, FinTech challenges traditional structures and creates efficiency gains by opening up the financial services value chain. Today, FinTech is emerging as a technological enabler in the region, improving financial inclusion and serving as a catalyst for the emergence of innovations in other sectors, such as agriculture and infrastructure.

Author : Uma J. Lele
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801817692

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The Design of Rural Development by Uma J. Lele Pdf

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,African Union
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251308714

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Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization: A Framework for Africa by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations,African Union Pdf

This framework presents ten interrelated principles/elements to guide Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization in Africa (SAMA). Further, it presents the technical issues to be considered under SAMA and the options to be analysed at the country and sub regional levels. The ten key elements required in a framework for SAMA are as follows: The analysis in the framework calls for a specific approach, involving learning from other parts of the world where significant transformation of the agricultural mechanization sector has already occurred within a three-to-four decade time frame, and developing policies and programmes to realize Africa’s aspirations of Zero Hunger by 2025. This approach entails the identification and prioritization of relevant and interrelated elements to help countries develop strategies and practical development plans that create synergies in line with their agricultural transformation plans. Given the unique characteristics of each country and the diverse needs of Africa due to the ecological heterogeneity and the wide range of farm sizes, the framework avoids being prescriptive.

Author : National Intelligence Council
Publisher : Cosimo Reports
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1646794974

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Global Trends 2040 by National Intelligence Council Pdf

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1716 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UIUC:30112124438489

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World Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Abstracts by Anonim Pdf

Author : World Bank
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105008886231

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Sub-Saharan Africa by World Bank Pdf

3. Investing in people.

Author : Mr.Montfort Mlachila,Ahmat Jidoud,Ms.Monique Newiak,Bozena Radzewicz-Bak,Ms.Misa Takebe
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781475532401

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Financial Development in Sub-Saharan Africa by Mr.Montfort Mlachila,Ahmat Jidoud,Ms.Monique Newiak,Bozena Radzewicz-Bak,Ms.Misa Takebe Pdf

This paper discusses how sub-Saharan Africa’s financial sector developed in the past few decades, compared with other regions. Sub-Saharan African countries have made substantial progress in financial development over the past decade, but there is still considerable scope for further development, especially compared with other regions. Indeed, until a decade or so ago, the level of financial development in a large number of sub-Saharan African countries had actually regressed relative to the early 1980s. With the exception of the region’s middle-income countries, both financial market depth and institutional development are lower than in other developing regions. The region has led the world in innovative financial services based on mobile telephony, but there remains scope to increase financial inclusion further. The development of mobile telephone-based systems has helped to incorporate a large share of the population into the financial system, especially in East Africa. Pan-African banks have been a driver for homegrown financial development, but they also bring a number of challenges.

Author : Rauno Zander,Calvin Miller,Nomathemba Mhlanga
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D03691302M

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Credit Guarantee Systems for Agriculture and Rural Enterprise Development by Rauno Zander,Calvin Miller,Nomathemba Mhlanga Pdf

Examines the application and results of guarantee funds for agricultural and rural enterprise development. Through analysis of guarantee funds that have been operational for a long period, the document aims to inform development agencies and policy-makers on current practices and experiences, so that they can apply this information to their decision-making regarding whether or not and/or how best to promote guarantee mechanisms that are effective and sustainable.

Author : Frank F. K. Byamugisha
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781464801891

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Agricultural Land Redistribution and Land Administration in Sub-Saharan Africa by Frank F. K. Byamugisha Pdf

Agricultural Land Redistribution and Land Administration in Sub-Saharan Africa: Case Studies of Recent Reforms focuses on “how” to undertake land reforms in Sub-Saharan Africa, but with relevant lessons for other developing countries. It provides details, with case studies, on how reforms were undertaken to address a pressing and controversial development challenge in Africa – land ownership inequality – and an intransigent development issue – inefficiency and corruption in land administration. An equally important contribution of the book is assessing reforms and highlighting valuable lessons for other countries contemplating reforms. The six case studies collectively cover two main areas of land governance: reforms in redistributing agricultural land and reforms in land administration. The first two case studies discuss reforms in redistributing agricultural land in Malawi and South Africa, part of the southern Africa region where land ownership inequalities rival those in Latin America. The remaining case studies, four in number, are focused on addressing corruption and inefficiency in land administration in a variety of contexts of governance including stable and post-conflict countries. The case studies cover: • Decentralizing land administration with demonstrations from Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Ghana; • Developing post-conflict land administration systems with examples from Liberia and Rwanda; • Re-engineering and computerizing land information systems with examples from Ghana and Uganda; and • Improving management of government land through land inventories with examples drawn from Ghana and Uganda. The common elements between sometimes disparate experiences provide lessons of relevance to African and other developing countries contemplating similar reforms. The rigorous analysis and yet down-to-earth lessons of experience are a reflection of the authors’ deep global experience underpinned by personal participation in the reforms covered by the book. This volume will be of interest to a wide audience including land specialists and practitioners, African policy makers, experts and managers in the international development community, and the academia.

Author : Kloeppinger-Todd, Renate,Sharma, Manohar
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Innovations in rural and agriculture finance by Kloeppinger-Todd, Renate,Sharma, Manohar Pdf

Everywhere in the world, small agricultural producers are entrepreneurs, traders, investors, and consumers, all rolled into one. In all these roles, small agricultural households constantly seek to use available financial instruments to improve their productivity and secure the best possible consumption and investment choices for their families. But the package of financial services available to small farmers in developing countries is severely limited, especially for those living in remote areas with no access to basic market infrastructure. When poor people have limited saving or borrowing options, their investment plans are stifled and it becomes harder for them to break out of poverty. If households have no access to insurance and are unable to accumulate small savings that enable them to pay for household and business expenses, especially during lean seasons, they are forced to limit their exposure to risk, even if high returns are expected, once again making the pathway out of poverty more arduous than necessary. Inadequate access to financial services is thus part of what is often called the “poverty trap.”

Author : Pernechele, V., Fontes, F., Baborska, R., Nkuingoua, J., Pan, X., Tuyishime, C.
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789251343449

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Public expenditure on food and agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa by Pernechele, V., Fontes, F., Baborska, R., Nkuingoua, J., Pan, X., Tuyishime, C. Pdf

Monitoring and analysing food and agriculture policies and their effects is crucial to support decision makers in developing countries to shape better policies that drive agricultural and food systems transformation. This report is a technical analysis of government spending data on food and agriculture during 2004–2018 in 13 sub-Saharan African countries – Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania. It analyses the level of public expenditure, including budget execution, source of funding and decentralized spending, as well as the composition of expenditure, including on producer or consumer support, research and development, infrastructure and more to reveal the trends and challenges that countries are facing. It also delves into the relationship between the composition of public expenditure and agricultural performance.As a way forward for future policymaking, the report offers a set of recommendations to strengthen policy monitoring systems and data generation for effective public investments in food and agriculture.The report is produced by the Monitoring and Analysing Food and Agricultural Policies (MAFAP) programme at FAO in collaboration with MAFAP country partners.

Author : The World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821389447

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Agricultural Innovation Systems by The World Bank Pdf

Managing the ability of agriculture to meet rising global demand and to respond to the changes and opportunities will require good policy, sustained investments, and innovation - not business as usual. Investments in public Research and Development, extension, education, and their links with one another have elicited high returns and pro-poor growth, but these investments alone will not elicit innovation at the pace or on the scale required by the intensifying and proliferating challenges confronting agriculture. Experience indicates that aside from a strong capacity in Research and Development, the ability to innovate is often related to collective action, coordination, the exchange of knowledge among diverse actors, the incentives and resources available to form partnerships and develop businesses, and conditions that make it possible for farmers or entrepreneurs to use the innovations. While consensus is developing about what is meant by 'innovation' and 'innovation system', no detailed blueprint exists for making agricultural innovation happen at a given time, in a given place, for a given result. The AIS approach that looks at these multiple conditions and relationships that promote innovation in agriculture, has however moved from a concept to a sub-discipline with principles of analysis and action. AIS investments must be specific to the context, responding to the stage of development in a particular country and agricultural sector, especially the AIS. This sourcebook contributes to identifying, designing, and implementing the investments, approaches, and complementary interventions that appear most likely to strengthen AIS and to promote agricultural innovation and equitable growth. It emphasizes the lessons learned, benefits and impacts, implementation issues, and prospects for replicating or expanding successful practices. The information in this sourcebook derives from approaches that have been tested at different scales in different contexts. It reflects the experiences and evolving understanding of numerous individuals and organizations concerned with agricultural innovation, including the World Bank. This information is targeted to the key operational staff in international and regional development agencies and national governments who design and implement lending projects and to the practitioners who design thematic programs and technical assistance packages. The sourcebook can also be an important resource for the research community and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).