Storybook: The Year the Cold Didn’t Come
Through this storybook, IFAD seeks to highlight the impact of climate change in Lao PDR, where those affected the most are rural people, especially women, children and ethnic minorities.
Farmers’ organizations play a key role in the agriculture sector by aggregating producers and offering them a range of services, such as access to inputs, markets and training.
Despite that, farmers’ organizations face challenges in accessing capital from financial institutions that is adapted to their needs.
This report offers new evidence to inform the design of suitable and timely financial products for farmer organizations, based on a survey of 220 farmers’ organizations in West Africa and Asia and the Pacific.
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