Private Sector Solutions to Helping Smallholders Succeed : Social Enterprise Business Models in the Agriculture Sector

Smallholder farmers in developing countries face tough challenges to their productivity, growth, and sustainability—including lack of access to affordable financial products, limited knowledge of high-quality inputs, low usage of technology and mar...

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Main Authors:	Tinsley, Elaine, Agapitova, Natalia
Format:	Report
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	SMALLHOLDER FARMER SOCIAL ENTERPRISE BUSINESS MODEL ACCESS TO FINANCE MICROENTERPRISE MICROFINANCE MICROINSURANCE INSURANCE EXTENSION SERVICES AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION ICT FOOD STORAGE VALUE CHAIN MARKET LINKAGES
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/851711521095180329/Private-sector-solutions-to-helping-smallholders-succeed-social-enterprise-business-models-in-the-agriculture-sector http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29543

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spelling	okr-10986-295432021-05-25T09:53:22Z Private Sector Solutions to Helping Smallholders Succeed : Social Enterprise Business Models in the Agriculture Sector Tinsley, Elaine Agapitova, Natalia Tinsley, Elaine Agapitova, Natalia SMALLHOLDER FARMER SOCIAL ENTERPRISE BUSINESS MODEL ACCESS TO FINANCE MICROENTERPRISE MICROFINANCE MICROINSURANCE INSURANCE EXTENSION SERVICES AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION ICT FOOD STORAGE VALUE CHAIN MARKET LINKAGES Smallholder farmers in developing countries face tough challenges to their productivity, growth, and sustainability—including lack of access to affordable financial products, limited knowledge of high-quality inputs, low usage of technology and market data, and poor market links across the value chain. To close these gaps and help smallholder farmers thrive, social enterprises are implementing innovative solutions in the agriculture sector to serve them. Social enterprises are defined as private for-profit, nonprofit, or hybrid organizations that use business methods to advance their social mission. In the case of agriculture, social enterprises often address a particular pain point in the value chain, with the intention that the cost of their services or products will be recuperated by the benefits and income gains that smallholders will achieve. To serve such a “last mile” market, social enterprises will often develop a business model that is innovative, cost-effective, and provides strong value for money in providing quality services and products.The purpose of this book is to showcase the market-based solutions that have proven effective at supporting smallholders and to synthesize the experiences of social enterprises around the world. This book catalogues more than 100 social enterprises, categorized into 9 business models, that cut across the agriculture value chain. 2018-03-29T18:37:58Z 2018-03-29T18:37:58Z 2018-03 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/851711521095180329/Private-sector-solutions-to-helping-smallholders-succeed-social-enterprise-business-models-in-the-agriculture-sector http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29543 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Other Agriculture Study Economic & Sector Work
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topic	SMALLHOLDER FARMER SOCIAL ENTERPRISE BUSINESS MODEL ACCESS TO FINANCE MICROENTERPRISE MICROFINANCE MICROINSURANCE INSURANCE EXTENSION SERVICES AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION ICT FOOD STORAGE VALUE CHAIN MARKET LINKAGES
spellingShingle	SMALLHOLDER FARMER SOCIAL ENTERPRISE BUSINESS MODEL ACCESS TO FINANCE MICROENTERPRISE MICROFINANCE MICROINSURANCE INSURANCE EXTENSION SERVICES AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION ICT FOOD STORAGE VALUE CHAIN MARKET LINKAGES Tinsley, Elaine Agapitova, Natalia Private Sector Solutions to Helping Smallholders Succeed : Social Enterprise Business Models in the Agriculture Sector
description	Smallholder farmers in developing countries face tough challenges to their productivity, growth, and sustainability—including lack of access to affordable financial products, limited knowledge of high-quality inputs, low usage of technology and market data, and poor market links across the value chain. To close these gaps and help smallholder farmers thrive, social enterprises are implementing innovative solutions in the agriculture sector to serve them. Social enterprises are defined as private for-profit, nonprofit, or hybrid organizations that use business methods to advance their social mission. In the case of agriculture, social enterprises often address a particular pain point in the value chain, with the intention that the cost of their services or products will be recuperated by the benefits and income gains that smallholders will achieve. To serve such a “last mile” market, social enterprises will often develop a business model that is innovative, cost-effective, and provides strong value for money in providing quality services and products.The purpose of this book is to showcase the market-based solutions that have proven effective at supporting smallholders and to synthesize the experiences of social enterprises around the world. This book catalogues more than 100 social enterprises, categorized into 9 business models, that cut across the agriculture value chain.
author2	Tinsley, Elaine
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author	Tinsley, Elaine Agapitova, Natalia
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title	Private Sector Solutions to Helping Smallholders Succeed : Social Enterprise Business Models in the Agriculture Sector
title_short	Private Sector Solutions to Helping Smallholders Succeed : Social Enterprise Business Models in the Agriculture Sector
title_full	Private Sector Solutions to Helping Smallholders Succeed : Social Enterprise Business Models in the Agriculture Sector
title_fullStr	Private Sector Solutions to Helping Smallholders Succeed : Social Enterprise Business Models in the Agriculture Sector
title_full_unstemmed	Private Sector Solutions to Helping Smallholders Succeed : Social Enterprise Business Models in the Agriculture Sector
title_sort	private sector solutions to helping smallholders succeed : social enterprise business models in the agriculture sector
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
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Private Sector Solutions to Helping Smallholders Succeed : Social Enterprise Business Models in the Agriculture Sector

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