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Comprehensive Solutions for Venture Capital in African Agribusiness

At its most basic level, venture capital involves investing in companies that create value by solving problems. VC’s often search for companies addressing sectors of the economy that are full of problems — and therefore ripe for disruption. Solutions that effectively alleviate these problems have the potential to spread like wildfire and deliver the rapid, [...]

Enabling environment and smallholder finance

For smallholder financial solutions to succeed, providers require support from an enabling environment. Previous ISF and Lab research identified components of this environment, from Inflection Point which demonstrated the relationship between financial service providers (FSPs) and capital providers, to ISF’s research on the role of government policy and smallholder finance and the market for technical assistance providers in developing countries. The [...]

Rural finance providers: A new segmentation for an expanding market

The expanding market for rural finance In our 2016 Inflection Point report, ISF Advisors and the Lab issued a call for action to close the agricultural finance gap and spur investment in new models to extend financial services to smallholder farmers. While it is difficult to capture an exact picture of the scale of growth [...]