Farmers in many low- and middle-income countries face a major financial gap, with available resources often insufficient to enable them to increase production—and putting many higher-value products with the greatest potential to increase incomes out of reach. Yet banks and other formal financial institutions shy away from lending to smallholder farmers. There are several reasons […]
Evaluating Microequity Models for Financing Livestock Fattening in Bangladesh
Can profit-sharing be the key to unlocking the potential of small-scale livestock farmers in Bangladesh? Researchers from IFPRI and the University of Oxford are partnering with WeGro to evaluate a new model that could provide much-needed income and well-being benefits to marginalized cattle farmers in the country.