Financing sustainable agriculture and mitigation: Smallholders and the Inari system of finance. CCAFS Working Paper No. 52

From:
Department for International Development
Published
1 January 2013
Country:
Brazil, Vietnam, Kenya, Philippines
Document Type:
Working Paper
Theme:
Food and Nutrition
Authors:
Munden, L., Alforte, A., Matias, D., Perron, J.

Abstract

Key messages in this Working Paper are:

  • Smallholder farmers and forestry producers have a crucial role to play in food security, sustainable land use and emissions reductions initiatives.
  • Producers and investors alike require appropriate incentive structures to facilitate participation in sustainable land use initiatives.
  • A networked financing approach—Inari—may provide an innovative response to financing sustainable land use via intelligent diversification and addressing the finance needs of smallholders.
  • Diversification requires the development of a more holistic risk model for investment in smallholder agriculture and forestry, which will be tested in a number of developing countries in 2013 and 2014.

Citation

Alforte, A.; Matias, D.; Munden, L.; Perron, J. Financing sustainable agriculture and mitigation: Smallholders and the Inari system of finance. CCAFS Working Paper No. 52. CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), Copenhagen, Denmark (2013) 26 pp.

Financing sustainable agriculture and mitigation: Smallholders and the Inari system of finance. CCAFS Working Paper No. 52

Published 1 January 2013
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