Partners
IFAD works with many partners, including rural people, to increase our impact.
Increasing IFAD’s impact on food security and rural poverty requires moving beyond routine interventions and traditional partners.
In recent years official development aid for agriculture has stagnated at around US$10.5 billion per year and is far from answering the funding needs to end hunger. At the same time, in Africa alone 440 million youth will be entering the job market in the next two decades and need opportunities.
Small-scale farmers and rural micro, small and mid-size enterprises (MSMEs) are one solution: they are the backbone of global agriculture and food systems. But they lack access to the markets, services, and financing they need to grow and be sustainable.
Their needs are known, but most investors lack the knowledge and capacity for reaching small-scale farmers and rural MSMEs. Bridging this gap requires an investor with a deep understanding of the agriculture sector and rural communities.
IFAD’s Private Sector Financing Programme (PSFP) is a financing facility designed to promote increased investment into small-scale agriculture.
The facility offers financing directly to operating companies as well as financial intermediaries on-lending, investing or offering services to small farmers, rural poor and MSMEs.
The key features of the PSFP are:
As the only international financial institution focused on rural transformation IFAD offers PSFP partners:
Lead Regional Technical Specialist, Rural Finance, Markets and Value Chains
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