Viewing Value Chain and Household Finance From a Demand Perspective
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Geoffrey Chalmers
ACDI/VOCA
Jason Agar
Kadale Consultants Limited
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Financial access can be critical to reducing hunger and poverty in three ways. First, financial access for agricultural value chain development is needed throughout the value chain to achieve broad-based economic growth for low-income households. Second, diversification out of agriculture is a hallmark of economic growth, but rural entrepreneurs require financial access in order to invest in non-farm enterprises. Third, access to financial services enables rural households to meet regular and unexpected consumption and social demands, without having to divert financing from investment opportunities.
"Rural and Agricultural Finance: Taking Stock of Five Years of Innovations" researches and categorizes the principal challenges facing the agricultural and rural sectors. The report takes stock of the financial services initiatives around the world since 2006 that form part of the “innovations frontiers” in addressing these challenges. The paper’s framework emphasizes the inter-relation between the agricultural value chain, the non-farm enterprise, and the rural household. The presenters discuss findings from this paper, focusing on the ways in which these three areas overlap.
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Geoffrey Chalmers
Presenter Bio:
Geoffrey Chalmers has 15 years of management and technical experience in rural and agricultural finance, value chain development, microfinance and private sector management. Currently, Chalmers is a Senior Technical Director at ACDI/VOCA, where he primarily focuses on the nexus between value chain development and rural and agricultural finance. Previously, Chalmers served as an economic growth officer at the USAID Mission in Mexico City as well as an advisor and specialist in USAID’s Microenterprise Office. Chalmers has also held positions at the IADB, World Bank, several NGOs, and various companies in the private sector. He is a graduate of the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins.
Jason Agar has been Managing Director of Kadale Consultants (Malawi) for the last 11 years, and has 22 years of developing country work. After 9 years working in marketing in large UK based businesses, he first became involved in microfinance in Kenya, with a GTZ funded informal sector lending programme (Jua Kali). In 1993, Agar joined the Small Business Centre of Durham University, UK, working alongside the (subsequent) founders of the Springfield Centre. After running his own consulting firm undertaking enterprise and micro-finance assignments in Asia and Africa, he joined Kadale in Malawi as owner and Managing Director. Kadale has provided research, consultancy and training for development organisations and private sector firms in the Malawi and East/Southern Africa. His areas of expertise include public-private (and policy) dialogue, making markets work for the poor (M4P), finance/micro-finance, business development services, value-chain analysis and the integration of these approaches in addressing poverty.
Here is the link to the paper's annex: http://microlinks.kdid.org/library/annex-rural-and-agricultural-finance-taking-stock-five-years-innovations
Where is the information about how to access the annex referred to at the end of the paper discussed in the webinar?
Where is the information about how to access the annex referred to at the end of the paper discussed in the webinar?
Can you talk about the hype of mobile phones? Too much so given its likley contribution to solving basic risks and costs of ag/rural lending
What if any progress have we seen in the development of futures markets? They can lock in future prices, and offer derivatives such as options which would allow buyers to hedge the "1-way" problem.
1. Do value chain serve different layers or are they mainly concerned with marekt that are linked to a business activity (transient poor only?
2. How land less poor/non farmer is benefitted in value chain?
3. How can we eliminate side-selling completely in the presence of local traditional trading system (middleman)?
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