Working Paper

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

author(s) Munden, L.. - Alforte, A.. - Matias, D.. - Perron, J.
from UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
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themes
regions
  • South-Eastern Asia
  • Asia
  • World
  • Eastern Africa
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Africa
  • South America
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Americas
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

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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

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