Agricultural Value Chain Finance: Tools and Lessons

Case studies of banks, cooperatives and agribusinesses that finance African farmers through value chains. Each case explains the model, its results and the lessons learned.

FAO and AFRACA

A university course text on farm credit: types and sources of credit, loan appraisal and repayment, financial statements and the institutions that lend to farmers.

J. Olukosi

A policy study on why subsidized farm credit programs failed and what a sound rural finance system needs. Short and well argued, though written in 1998.

FAO and GTZ

A plain-language guide to borrowing for a farm. It explains how lenders judge an application, which numbers they look at and how to present a business idea.

Jean Willoughby