Digital Consulting Services - Agriculture and Finance Consultant

Agriculture and food systems

MSC understands rural populations. Our agricultural experts build agricultural finance strategies for financial institutions and assist our partners to develop the capacity to implement them. MSC designs and develops agricultural products built on risk management approaches designed specifically for agricultural lending.

MSC enhances access to markets through improving forward and backward linkages. We digitize the value chain and apply our knowledge of agent banking and working with rural communities to enhance their uptake of digital finance. We focus on various areas, such as productivity enhancement, research and policy advocacy, training and capacity-building of stakeholders, livelihood improvement, sustainable agriculture, and agri insurance. We also partner with agricultural projects to leverage our respective advantages in linkages with farmers and financial institutions.

We have been currently deepening our work in emerging areas, such as data analytics for agriculture, digital marketplaces, and smart or precision agriculture through digital technologies and the Internet of Things.

Signature Projects

Agricultural finance product development in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Ghana

Cordaid Netherlands and MSC collaborated to provide technical assistance to seven MFIs in Africa. The collaboration developed agricultural finance products to improve access to financing among farming households. MSC worked with seven financial institutions and contributed to the design of seven credit products. The intervention helped the MFIs to disburse USD 3 million to smallholder farmers, ultimately reaching 1.3 million smallholder farmers.

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AGRA and SELF Tanzania: Innovative digitally enabled development to smoothen the income for smallholder maize farmers in Tanzania

Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) hired MSC to provide technical assistance for SELF MF Tanzania, which provides loans to banks and MFIs in Tanzania. MSC developed seasonal agriculture loan products, which successfully reached many more farmers than before. By mid-2018, three partners had disbursed loans worth USD 500,000 to smallholder farmers in Tanzania.

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eNAM platform to digitize the marketing of agricultural produce in India

India’s eNAM platform enables trading of primary agricultural produce and connects markets through an online platform. MSC has been supporting the central and the provincial governments in design, policy reforms, and implementation of the eNAM program. Many of the design improvements have been accepted and implemented. The cumulative volume of electronic trade on eNAM had crossed about INR 482 billion (USD 6.5 billion) by September, 2018.

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Strengthening small and mid-sized farmer producer companies in India

MSC worked with IFC to train and build the capacity of Indian farmer producer companies on governance, financial management, risk management, and business planning. The program resulted in nearly a million smallholder farmers being trained. Many financial service producers adopted the curriculum, as MSC’s training now enables them to train producer organizations.

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ACRE Africa: Development of a community-level promotion model for agricultural insurance in Kenya

MSC worked with ACRE Africa to design a cost-effective, village-based, insurance product promotion model. During the pilot phase, the outreach model increased adoption of the weather index seed insurance by 10%. The partner has since adopted the model to reach smallholder farmers in remote rural areas of Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania. Since then, ACRE Africa had underwritten more than USD 75 million to mitigate against weather-related risks.

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