Anne Salter

Anne is a development professional. She has undertaken a number of research projects as part of the Ashley Insight team with clients including the World Bank Innovations team, Business Call to Action and the Global Innovation Fund. Anne has worked with the Federation of Social Organisations in Costa Rica, Ashoka Mexico and Social Enterprise UK.

Tap into inclusive agribusiness knowledge from companies and organisations around the world

Agriculture or Food
11. Jul 2016

Looking for more resources on inclusive agribusiness? The new searchable database from The Practitioner Hub for Inclusive Business and the Inclusive Business Action Network, SearchInclusiveBusiness.org, lists over 1,400 publications on inclusive business, including 327 in the agriculture and food sector. It includes case studies, impact reports, research and tools for informing your work on inclusive business. Some highlights include:

  1. This month’s editor’s choice “Inflection Point: Unlocking growth in the era of farmer finance”, from Dalberg and The Initiative for Smallholder Finance, provides a picture of how the smallholder finance space currently operates by describing the key actors and the nature of their interactions, and conceptualizing these in a new "industry model." The study identifies market frictions across the major components of the “industry model” that continue to inhibit smallholder farmers’ access to financial services and opportunities for removing them, and rallies sector actors around the need for more collective action.

2. How Big Data and Data Science Are Changing Smallholder Finance - The Initiative for Smallholder Finance, 2016

This short briefing, the eleventh in a series that demonstrates how specific products and services can expand the reach of financing for smallholder farmers, explores how innovative lenders are using new data sources and analytics to assess the creditworthiness of borrowers.

  1. Scaling up index insurance for smallholder farmers: Recent evidence and insights, H. Greatrex, J. Hansen, S. Garvin, R. Diro, S. Blakeley, M. Le Guen, K. Rao, D. Osgood - CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), 2015

This report discusses five case studies that insure smallholder farmers or pastoralists in the developing world. In the second part it discusses the evidence from these case studies for the potential for index-based insurance to benefit smallholder farmers in the developing world, and the strategies that they have employed in order to scale.

4. Collaborating for Change in Sugar Production: Building Blocks for Sustainability at Scale, B. Jenkins, P. Baptista, M. Porth - Business Fights Poverty, Harvard Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, 2015

This report proposes a framework to drive more sustainable sugar production and procurement at scale. The progress and challenges of sustainable practices within the sugar sector are reviewed using short case examples, and the 'Bonsucro' model is highlighted, as it offers the world’s only sugarcane-specific sustainability standard. It concludes with questions that sugar sector stakeholders will need to address to accelerate change going forward.

5. From Smallholder To Small Business: Private Sector Insights On Service Delivery For Boosting Profitability Along The Value Chain- Grow Africa, 2015

This report looks at how inclusive business models provide agribusinesses with ways of working that create shared value with economies of scale for agribusinesses and thus lower risks and costs. It shares lessons of ‘learning by doing’ by agribusiness companies working with smallholder farmers across sub-Saharan Africa.

6. Smallholder Farmers and Business- Hystra, 2015 

This comprehensive report focuses on methods to increase smallholder farmers’ productivity as a way to improve their incomes and livelihoods by creating more value, operating more cost efficiently and capturing and sharing value. It is based on 15 global organisations and summarises 13 insights.

7. Inclusive agribusiness: Linking smallholder farmers to markets - How can sustainable, inclusive linkages be formed that meet the needs of both the farmer and the market?- Business Innovation Facility (BIF), 2013

This report discusses how sustainable and inclusive linkages can be formed that are beneficial for both the farmer and the market. It provides reasons why types of smallholder market linkages exist, what drives them and the lessons that can be learned from eight inclusive businesses within the Business Innovations Facility portfolio.

SearchInclusiveBusiness.org also includes a growing database of publications in Spanish, including 64 in “agricultura y alimentación”.  Highlights include:

  1. Financiamiento de Cadenas de Valor Agrícola en América Latina: Barreras y Oportunidades en México, Perú y Honduras., L. Grace, R. Moyes, A. Spahr - Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo 2014

Este estudio presenta ejemplos de cómo financiar e incluir en las cadenas de valor a pequeños y medianos productores a través de los casos de México, Peru y Honduras. Así mismo compara las políticas de estos países alrededor de este tema con las de Estados Unidos para exponer oportunidades de expansión.

  1. Metodología LINK. Una guía participativa para diseñar implementar y evaluar modelos de negocio incluyentes con productores a pequeña escala. M. Lundy, A. Amrein, J.J. Hurtado, G.Becx, N. Zamierowski, F. Rodriguez, E. Mosquera Becx, N. Zamierowski, F. Rodríguez, E. Eliana Mosquera - Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT), 2014

Esta guía está enfocada en proporcionar herramientas para el desarrollo de modelos de negocios inclusivos con pequeños agricultores. Dicha guía consta de cuatro herramientas para el desarrollo de un negocio inclusivo: mapeo de cadena de valor, plantilla de modelo de negocio, principios de negocios inclusivos y ciclo te prototipo.

To search more documents on all topics in inclusive business or to add your own publications to the database visit SearchInclusiveBusiness.org

This blog is part of the July 2016 series from the Practitioner Hub and Seas of Change on Inclusive Agribusiness. For more insight, updates and opinion view the whole series.