Agri-SME Finance and Investment Network (SAFIN)

An in-person and online event alongside the 7th World Congress on Rural and Agricultural Finance! On-site venue: Headquarters of the Fideicomisos Instituidos en Relación con la Agricultura (FIRA) in Morelia, Mexico. As the world struggles to address the worst food crisis in generations, agri-SMEs that play key roles across agricultural value chains are facing unprecedented […]

Jul 06, 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM The war in Ukraine began in February 2022, and evidence of its impact on global food systems continues to grow. Yet, much uncertainty remains around its effect on different actors in the agriculture sector, particularly agri-SMEs and the institutions that finance them. While it is understood that most […]

*16h-17h CET on 03 March 2022 About the session This webinar, co-organized with the International Trade Centre (ITC), brings together a panel of representatives from both the supply and demand side of green finance targeting agri-SMEs and farmers’ organizations in the coffee sector in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). The discussion will build on […]

Oct 06, 2:00 PM – 6:00 PM GMT+2 About The challenges related to making green finance available to the agriculture sector are particularly acute when it comes to small-scale farms and SMEs, which generally struggle also to access mainstream types of financing. One key obstacle to scaling up the mobilization and deployment of green finance […]

This webinar will feature a fireside discussion with two prominent actors in the area of agri-SME finance who will share their recent experience with partnership-based green finance initiatives. About the Webinar Many recent efforts to increase the flow of inclusive green finance in agriculture have involved the development of partnerships bringing together a variety of […]

About the Webinar Agriculture transformation that involves the production of high-value food products and post-harvest processing offers significant business opportunities for agribusiness SMEs. Long-term (LT) finance is critical for investments in building the needed infrastructure and agribusiness capacity, improved technologies, and equipment to make agriculture more productive, efficient, profitable, and resilient. The Long-term investment capital […]

 3:30 – 4:30pm CET. About the Webinar The Inclusive rural financial services and agri-SMEs: Lessons from IFAD’s portfolio event will feature a presentation of the main findings of a recent stocktaking exercise, which assesses IFAD’s capacity to deliver inclusive financial services in the rural space as well as to promote pro-poor rural financial markets through […]

  The workshop is co-organized by CABFIN and SAFIN. The event will take place on 26-27 May from 13:30 to 16:30 CET.   About Though there is no single definition, broadly speaking, green finance is finance for boosting public and private investments in economic activities that produce positive environmental impacts and contribute to a transition to a […]

The current COVID-19 crisis is bringing into sharp relief the vulnerability of agri-food systems and creating new challenges whose repercussions may be felt in the sector for a long time. Among other things, it is showing the limits of our capacity to anticipate shocks and is testing the risk management capacity of all actors active […]

In recognition of the well-understood macro-, meso- and micro-level challenges and risks associated with rural and agricultural finance, the need for a system-level approach to managing those risks is gaining increasing traction in the thinking and programming of the community of practice. Within this system-level view, the concept of holistic, integrated risk management as a […]

19 June 2018 | 10:00AM EST, 4:00PM CEST, 8:30PM IST | 1hr Palladium is an international development company with over 50 years of experience, 2,000 employees and offices globally. As a firm, Palladium is committed to the concept of creating Positive Impact, or the enduring creation of social and econom- ic value in the countries where we work. It […]