Financial liberalization, combined with efforts from development agencies and the private sector, will significantly increase the range of products available to agricultural households around the world.
Exposed to the forces of trade liberalization and globalization, smallholder farmers face an uncertain future. Our project will carry out research in Guatemala to explore three innovations that offer the potential to enhance the competitiveness of smallholder agriculture.
If it were possible to insure MFIs against correlated risk, the benefits may extend to agricultural producers in the form of more available and less expensive credit, thus reducing the amount of rationed households.
