Innovative Agricultural SME Finance Models

This report identifies innovations that can help bankers in developing countries finance agricultural small and medium enterprises. It highlights the most promising examples of innovative financing, risk mitigation and distribution models drawn from a stocktaking exercise of 100 global cases. It primarily addresses private sector financial institutions in emerging markets and is designed to complement the November 2011 IFC report “Scaling Up Access to Finance for Agricultural SMEs – Policy Review and Recommendations,” which focused on the policy framework conducive to agricultural SME finance.